[SciPy-user] Another OS X issue

[Robert Kern]

Anand Patil wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I had installed scipy from the installer packages available on the 
> website, then installed numpy 1.0 when it came out, and then scipy 
> didn't work. Now I'm having a bit of trouble compiling scipy from source:
> 
> /usr/bin/ld: can't locate file for: -lcc_dynamic
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> /usr/bin/ld: can't locate file for: -lcc_dynamic
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> error: Command "/sw/bin/g77 -g -Wall -undefined dynamic_lookup -bundle 
> build/temp.macosx-10.4-fat-2.4/build/src.macosx-10.4-fat-2.4/Lib/fftpack/_fftpackmodule.o 

> I'm on a PowerBook G4 running Tiger.

You cannot use gcc 4.0 with g77, and you need to use gcc 4.0 to build Universal
binaries for the Python that you are using. You need to use gfortran with gcc 4.0.

-- 
Robert Kern

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 an underlying truth."
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