[Paraview] [EXTERNAL] Re: numpy build issues

[Scott, W Alan]

Ah, thanks Ben!!

Um ... These are clusters... Nothing surprises me...  :-)

Alan

-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Boeckel [mailto:ben.boeckel at kitware.com] 
Sent: Friday, October 16, 2015 1:00 PM
To: Scott, W Alan
Cc: paraview at paraview.org
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [Paraview] numpy build issues

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