Dependency problem with swig / py25-scipy

[Adam Mercer]

On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 15:10, Mark Asbach <asbach at ient.rwth-aachen.de> wrote:

> I've got a problem with py25-scipy or with its dependencies to be precise.
>
> - At first, scipy seems to need gcc42 or gcc43 from macports which means
> that it needs to build a very huge package. Isn't it possible to build it
> with the Mac OS X developer tools version of gcc?

No, scipy needs a fortran compiler which is not provided in Xcode.
Also on Mac OS X the only fortran compiler that is supported in the
numpy distutils in gfortran therefore gcc42, or gcc43 is required.

Cheers

Adam