[SciPy-user] Problems with fftpack on OS X 10.4

[Robert Kern]

Tim Gray wrote:
> On 5/11/05, Robert Kern wrote: 
> 
>>Offhand, I'd suggest using gcc 3.3 to compile Scipy and FFTW, not gcc 
>>4.0 which is the default on Tiger. Python 2.4.1 is compiled with gcc 3.3.
>>
>>$ sudo gcc_select 3.3
>>
>>If that doesn't work, lemme know, and I'll look into it more deeply.
> 
> Thank you sir, that did indeed help.  I was not aware gcc 4 was the default.  Now I am getting an error on import of scipy (traced to scipy/special/cephes.py) that _numeric.nc_cephes doesn't exist.  Descending down into the scipy/special/_numeric directory I only found nc_cephes.so...
> 
> This isn't a huge deal for me since I had a copy of the CVS from April 12th (which doesn't have cephes.py, _numeric, or _numarray) and that builds and runs fine.

You got caught in the middle of the port of this module to numarray. It 
looks like it just got fixed in CVS, though. Thanks, Todd!

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