[Numpy-discussion] Re: Problems building numpy

[Stephen Walton]

Robert Kern wrote:

>Rick Muller wrote:
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>>That being said, I just had my first system where Numpy failed to 
>>build. It's on a redhat 7.3 (yes, we have a 7.3 box. I didn't believe 
>>it either. not my decision.) and I get the following error when  trying
>>to run Numpy:
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>This usually means that you are not linking in the g2c library.
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On Redhat 7.3, I don't believe there was a g2c library, but an f2c one.  
So -lf2c is needed at the link step (and f2c needs to be installed).