[SciPy-user] SciPy builds and installs but won't import due to f2c

[Frank Lagor]

Dear Selwyn-Lloyd,

I hope I can help some, but I am not at all an expert on these things.  I
had what seemed like a similar problem (VERY similar, if I can remember).
Here's what got me running-- my numpy installation was based on the lapack
version that was causing my problem (I don't know if it was a lapack or
scipy problem but whatever...) Anyways, I re-did the install of numpy, and I
did not specify what lapack to use in the install.  I you want to do this,
be very careful that you do not have a LAPACK environment variable which is
pointing somewhere and you don't know it.  If you do, just unset it (unset
LAPACK).  The numpy install should not find any LAPACK (you'll be able to
read that on the screen during install), and it will use some default one.
Then re-do the scipy install and it should work.  This is sort of a hack
fix, because you will be using a non-optimized version of Lapack (assuming
you wanted to use ATLAS or something), but it will get you running.  One
last thing, unfortunately I believe the default version of lapack installed
is lapack lite or something like that (not the full lapack).  This may cause
you to not have full functionality.  It has only caused me problems on one
function: interp2d for 2d interpolation.  Also, you are on Red Hat, why
don't you use some red hat package manager or builtin software to install
this stuff?

That's all I've got,
Frank

On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 3:07 AM, Selwyn-Lloyd McPherson <
smcphers at stanford.edu> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I've been working on getting SciPy installed on my machine and it
> seems almost there. I've got a x86_64 system running Red Hat and more
> or less followed
> http://www.scipy.org/Installing_SciPy/Linux#head-1c4018a51422706809ee96a4db03ca0669f5f6d1
>  to build and install SciPy. After dealing with the whole fPIC mess
> that the 64-bit processor requires the install seems to finish but
> when I try to import, I get:
>
>  >>> from scipy import *
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/scipy/linalg/__init__.py",
> line 8, in ?
>     from basic import *
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/scipy/linalg/basic.py",
> line 17, in ?
>     from lapack import get_lapack_funcs
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/scipy/linalg/lapack.py",
> line 17, in ?
>     from scipy.linalg import flapack
> ImportError: /usr/lib/libf2c.so.0: undefined symbol: MAIN__
>
>
> Apparently a problem with f2c. . . Have any ideas?
>
> Thanks so much for reading!
>
>
> Selwyn-Lloyd
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-- 
Frank Lagor
Ph.D. Candidate
Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics
University of Pennsylvania
dfranci at seas.upenn.edu
215.898.3144
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