[MMTK] segmentation fault and netCDF module problem

[Konrad Hinsen]

On May 24, 2004, at 15:30, Hua Wong wrote:

> I recently installed MMTK from source and I am trying the examples.
> I obtain error messages that are strangely as similar as those obtain  
> by Siegfried Leung in this post:
>
> http://starship.python.net/pipermail/mmtk/2004/000623.html
>
> mostly when trying NormalModes > constrained_modes.py
> and when trying Trajectories > calpha_trajectory.py

If you get error messages about a missing netCDF module, then the most  
probable cause is that Scientific Python did not find the netCDF  
library when it was installed.

> and finally MMTK v2.4.1 (I had to tweak some of the .h files in order  
> to build correctly, but nothing heavy, just some import path...);

I guess this means that you installed everything into a non-standard  
location. If you install netCDF anywhere else than in /usr or  
/usr/local (plus /sw for MacOSX), you have to tell the ScientificPython  
installer where to look for it. The easiest way to do that is to set  
the environment variable NETCDF_PREFIX to the directory where netCDF is  
installed on your machine. The header files must be in  
$NETCDF_PREFIX/include and the library files in $NETCDF_PREFIX/lib.

> Now, I am wondering if I made all the proper links to all the modules  
> (I am not root), so, here are the lines I added to my .bashrc file :
>
> export  
> PYTHONPATH=/home/pif/wong/Softwares/MMTK/lib/python2.2/site-packages:/ 
> home/pif/wong/Softwares/MMTK/lib/python2.2/site-packages/Numeric

You should not have to add any path inside the Python library path. It  
is even recommended not to do so, as you create secondary names for  
those modules. Python normally finds all its packages that have been  
installed by the distutils mechanism.

Konrad.
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