[SciPy-user] Problems installing scipy 0.6 on FC5

[David Cournapeau]

David Cournapeau wrote:
> Alexander Dietz wrote:
>   
>>  
>>
>>     Also, you could try to see which
>>     flag make it fails, for example, does the following:
>>
>>     /usr/bin/g77 -g -Wall -fno-second-underscore -fPIC -O2 -funroll-loops
>>     -march=i686 -mmmx -msse -fomit-frame-pointer -malign-double -c
>>     scipy/fftpack/dfftpack/zfftb1.f
>>
>>
>> That worked actually... 
>>     
> Yes, so the problem is your gcc version. Maybe we could disable adding 
> -msse2 altogether for gcc < 3.3, instead of enabling it for gcc > 3.2.2 
> (look at numpy/distutils/fcompiler/gnu.py, and look for -msse2; if Pearu 
> or David are reading this, maybe they know a better solution ?).
>
> Note that FC5 is old. You should consider upgrading (FC 5 is not 
> maintained anymore) if you can,
I forgot: another possibility is to use gfortran instead of g77, but you 
will have to recompile everything (you cannot really mix  g77 and 
gfortran code together), including BLAS/LAPACK. For FC6, I remember that 
gfortran is the default ABI, so this is anyway the best choice, but I am 
not sure for FC5.

David