[SciPy-User] Error when building scipy.0.9.0 - "f951: undefined symbol: mpfr_get_z_exp"

[David Cournapeau]

On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Xiong Deng <dbigbear at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi ALL,
>
> I am trying to install numpy, scipy on my Linux. I have build and installed
> numpy on it kindof correctly with only one failure shown that:
>
> [work at tc-fcr-bid03.tc.baidu.com:~/xiongdeng/soft/scipy-0.9.0]$ python
> Python 2.7.1 (r271:86832, Jan 13 2011, 22:17:56)
> [GCC 3.4.5 20051201 (Red Hat 3.4.5-2)] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>> import numpy
>>>> numpy.test()
> Running unit tests for numpy
> NumPy version 1.6.1
> NumPy is installed in
> /home/work/local/python-2.7.1/lib/python2.7/site-packages/numpy
> Python version 2.7.1 (r271:86832, Jan 13 2011, 22:17:56) [GCC 3.4.5 20051201
> (Red Hat 3.4.5-2)]
> nose version 1.1.2
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> ======================================================================
> FAIL: Test basic arithmetic function errors
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File
> "/home/work/local/python-2.7.1/lib/python2.7/site-packages/numpy/testing/decorators.py",
> line 215, in knownfailer
>     return f(*args, **kwargs)
>   File
> "/home/work/local/python-2.7.1/lib/python2.7/site-packages/numpy/core/tests/test_numeric.py",
> line 367, in test_floating_exceptions_power
>     np.power, ftype(2), ftype(2**fi.nexp))
>   File
> "/home/work/local/python-2.7.1/lib/python2.7/site-packages/numpy/core/tests/test_numeric.py",
> line 271, in assert_raises_fpe
>     "Type %s did not raise fpe error '%s'." % (ftype, fpeerr))
>   File
> "/home/work/local/python-2.7.1/lib/python2.7/site-packages/numpy/testing/utils.py",
> line 34, in assert_
>     raise AssertionError(msg)
> AssertionError: Type <type 'numpy.float64'> did not raise fpe error
> 'overflow'.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Ran 3533 tests in 12.494s
>
> FAILED (KNOWNFAIL=3, failures=1)
> <nose.result.TextTestResult run=3533 errors=0 failures=1>
>
>
> HOWEVER, when I am building my scipy, there is a big error, causing
> termination of the building process. The messages are as below:
>
> /home/work/local/gcc-4.7/bin/../libexec/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/4.7.0/f951:
> symbol lookup error:
> /home/work/local/gcc-4.7/bin/../libexec/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/4.7.0/f951:
> undefined symbol: mpfr_get_z_exp
> error: Command "/home/work/local/gcc-4.7/bin/gfortran -Wall -ffixed-form
> -fno-second-underscore -fPIC -O3 -funroll-loops
> -I/home/work/local/python-2.7.1/lib/python2.7/site-packages/numpy/core/include
> -c -c scipy/special/specfun/specfun.f -o
> build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/scipy/special/specfun/specfun.o" failed with
> exit status 1
>
> IN ADDITION: One thing I have to say: when I compiled and installed gcc-4.7
> locally, I did not install GMP, MPFR, and MPC. They are installed after
> gcc-4.7....The problem may be due to this???? But How can I fix it without
> re-installing gcc-4.7 ???

Most likely, you did not build gcc  and gfortran correctly. Why don't
you use the gcc included on your system ?

cheers,

David