[SciPy-user] Installing SciPy, help needed.

[Andrea Riciputi]

Hi there,
I'm sorry if this is a already-asked question, but I'm quite new to python 
and completly new to SciPy. I'm considering SciPy as environment of choice 
to develope my Ph.D. thesis in astronomy. But I wasn't able to install it 
on my Linux box. Here is where the building process stops:

> In file included from fft/fftw_threads.h:23,
>                  from fft/fftw_wrap.c:559:
> fft/fftw.h:124: warning: function declaration isn't a prototype
> fft/fftw_wrap.c:570: warning: function declaration isn't a prototype
> fft/fftw_wrap.c:571: warning: function declaration isn't a prototype
> fft/fftw_wrap.c:572: warning: function declaration isn't a prototype
> fft/fftw_wrap.c:573: warning: function declaration isn't a prototype
> fft/fftw_wrap.c:576: warning: function declaration isn't a prototype
> fft/fftw_wrap.c:615: warning: function declaration isn't a prototype
> fft/fftw_wrap.c:2651: warning: function declaration isn't a prototype
> fft/fftw_wrap.c:211: warning: `SWIG_addvarlink' defined but not used
> gcc -shared build/temp.linux-ppc-2.2/fftw_wrap.o -L/root/lib 
> -L/usr/lib/gcc-lib/ppc-yellowdog-linux/2.95.3/specs -L/usr/lib/gcc-
> lib/ppc-yellowdog-linux/2.95.3/specs -Lbuild/temp.linux-ppc-2.2 
> -Lbuild/temp.linux-ppc-2.2 -lfftw_threads -lrfftw_threads -lfftw -lrfftw 
> -lpthread -lamos -ltoms -lfitpack -lminpack -lquadpack -lodepack 
> -llinpack_lite -lblas -lmach -lg2c -lgist -lc_misc -lcephes -o build/lib.
> linux-ppc-2.2/scipy/fft/fftw.so
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lfftw_threads
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1
> [root at localhost SciPy-0.1]#

Note that I've already installed FFTW as described in build instructions. 
I'm sorry but I'm not a Linux's wizard and I haven't any idea about what 
went wrong. Could anyone help me?

One more question: can I build SciPy without having installed wxPython? 
How?(I've got some problems with it too, and I don't really need it at the 
moment..)

Thanks in advance,
Andrea.

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Andrea Riciputi        <mailto:andrea.riciputi at libero.it>

"Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out,
   but that is not the reason we are doing it" -- (Richard Feynman)