[SciPy-user] help on fortran compiler

[David Cournapeau]

On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 1:54 AM, Avi Purkayastha <avi at sicortex.com> wrote:
:
> don't know how to compile Fortran code on platform 'posix' with 'pathf95'
> compiler. Supported compilers are:
> compaq,none,absoft,nag,gnu,sun,lahey,intelem,gnu95,intelv,g95,intele,intelev,pg,intel,mips,hpux,vast,ibm)
> building 'dfftpack' library
> error: library dfftpack has Fortran sources but no Fortran compiler found
> How do I force the script to accept pathf95 since I have no other fortran
> compilers?

You have to add your own fortran compiler tool (look at numpy sources,
in numpy¥distutils¥fcompiler for examples).

> II) I have a second issue once the fortran issue is resolved: we do not have
> dfftpack or umfpack built on our system. Does scipy build them, if not found
> in our library stack, so can I force the script to ignore dfftpack and
> umfpack?

dfftpack is included in scipy sources, so this is no problem. Umfpack
is not mandatory. Only BLAS and LAPACK are mandatory for scipy.

cheers,

David