[Paraview] numpy build issues

[Ben Boeckel]

On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 18:44:40 +0000, Scott, W Alan wrote:
> I am having issues getting ParaView, remote cluster, working with my
> own build of Python and numpy.  Obviously, I don't have root on these
> clusters, and I want to use my own Python.  (Clusters often have 10
> year old python.)
> 
> From the following, it appears I am missing a libgfortran.so.1.  Any
> idea why numpy wants Fortran, where it should be found and what I did
> wrong?   Any idea what I should do to fix it?

You can get numpy to not use fortran with:

    python setup.py build --fcompiler=no

It will use Fortran by default though. It is strange that a Fortran
compiler was found, but the libraries are not in a standard location…

--Ben