[Numpy-discussion] Built Lapack, Atlas from source.... now numpy.linalg.eig() hangs at 100% CPU

[David Cournapeau]

Chris Colbert wrote:
> David,
>
> The log was too big for the list, so I sent it to your email address
> directly.

Hm, never saw this one. In the build log, one can see:

...
compile options: '-c'

gcc: _configtest.c
gcc -pthread _configtest.o -L/usr/local/atlas/lib -llapack -lptf77blas -lptcblas -latlas -o _configtest
/usr/bin/ld: _configtest: hidden symbol `__powidf2' in /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.3.2/libgcc.a(_powidf2.o) is referenced by DSO
/usr/bin/ld: final link failed: Nonrepresentable section on output
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
/usr/bin/ld: _configtest: hidden symbol `__powidf2' in /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.3.2/libgcc.a(_powidf2.o) is referenced by DSO
/usr/bin/ld: final link failed: Nonrepresentable section on output
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
failure.

This does not look good. It may be a problem in your toolchain (i.e. how your distribution build gcc and co). I am afraid there is not much we can do at this point - you should report the problem to your OS vendor, hoping someone knows about this,

cheers,

David