[SciPy-user] Error Compiling Scipy

[Pearu Peterson]

On Sun, 19 Jan 2003, Jeffrey Stephens wrote:

> I am running RH 8.0, KDE Desktop, and using Python 2.2.  I began compiling
> Scipy, and everything went fine for a half hour or so.  Then the compile 
> aborted with the following message.  
> 
> g77 -shared build/temp.linux-i686-2.2/fftpackmodule.o 
> -Lbuild/temp.linux-i686-2.2 -Lbuild/temp.linux-i686-2.2 -lfftpack -ldfftpack 
> -lg2c -o build/lib.linux-i686-2.2/scipy/fftpack/fftpack.so
> restoring linker_so 'gcc -shared'
> building 'scipy.xplt.gistC' extension
> error: file '/home/jeffs/update/SciPy-0.2.0_alpha_144.4350/xplt/gistCmodule.c' 
> does not exist
> 
> A search reveals there is no gistCmodule.c anywhere in in SciPy.  Is this a 
> bug?  Need help?

The reason why given Scipy tarball lacks gistCmodule.c, in fact the
whole module is missing, is that it was generated under windows system
that skips xplt module.
Currently I recommend using Scipy from its CVS repository. 
Or you can disable xplt module from scipy setup.py file in order to finish
scipy build.

Pearu