Travis E. Oliphant wrote: > We are very pleased to announce the release of NumPy 1.0 available for > download at http://www.numpy.org
Congratulations for this great package and the tremendous effort that was put on it! Hopefully with this release, the 'array wars' are over; we may not be able to agree on the One And Only gui or web framework, but at least we can settle on an array interface. Unfortunately, the frustrating installation with ATLAS and LAPACK has curbed my initial enthusiasm; this has probably more to do with Redhat and its derivative distros than NumPy per se. After some hours of downloading, configuring and compiling LAPACK, ATLAS (whose 'make testing' failed because of GNU Fortran's problems with complex variables on Redhat, as I found out the hard way) and NumPy, I managed to build them all, fire up the interpreter, import numpy and be greeted by: "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/numpy/linalg/lapack_lite.so: undefined symbol: s_cat". After some more wasted time, I found out that I had to explicitly link with "-lg2c". Rebuild, reinstall, reimport and the problem was gone... giving its place to: ImportError: /usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/numpy/linalg/lapack_lite.so: undefined symbol: zheevd_ Googling for "undefined symbol: zheevd_" returned no hits, at which point I gave up for now; hopefully someone will have a suggestion on what to do next (other than dumping RH's mess for Ubuntu, which I'd gladly do if it was up to me). By the way, it would be great if numpy's mailing list was mirrored to a google group; sourceforge and gmane are just horrible to use. Best regards, George -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
