James Stroud wrote: > Robert Kern wrote: >> James Stroud wrote: >>> The build process, by the way, required my copying libpython2.5.a to >>> $HOME/Programs/lib. >> Hmm. That doesn't quite sound right, but it's been a while since I >> compiled the interpreter from source. > > Sorry. To clarify, making libpython2.5a available in a $LD_LIBRARY_PATH > was necessary to build numpy and scipy.
I don't see how that could have affected anything. Static libraries aren't looked up in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Certainly not for build-time linking. > I'm not sure if this is relevant to what you see in the check, but I > installed scipy_distutils AFTER installing scipy. scipy_distutils is no longer used. All of its functionality has been folded into numpy. What do your environment variables look like when you build? -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list