[SciPy-user] Trouble Compiling SciPy 0.4.8 under Debian 3.1r0a on AMD64

[Gil Citro]

On 4/5/06, Robert Kern <robert.kern at gmail.com> wrote:
> Gil Citro wrote:
> > I'm trying to install SciPy 0.4.8 from source under Debian 3.1r0a on
> > an AMD64 machine.  When I type python setup.py install, I get this
> > error
> >
> > /usr/bin/ld: /usr/local/lib/libfftw3.a(mapflags.o): relocation
> > R_X86_64_32 can not be used when making a shared object; recompile
> > with -fPIC
>
> This error message tells you what you need to do: recompile the FFTW3 libraries
> using the -fPIC flag to gcc. Otherwise, they can't be linked into shared
> libraries like Python extension modules. Ideally, you would compile FFTW3 as
> shared libraries themselves although I'm not sure if the FFTW3 build process
> makes that easy.
>

Thanks, but would you have any idea how to do that?  I tried modifying
the Makefile to add -fPIC to CFLAGS, CPPFLAGS, and FFLAGS but it
didn't change the error when attempting to build SciPy.  I'm not that
familiar with compiling software under Linux.  Thanks again if you
have any other suggestions.

Gil