i'm not sure if i experienced a similar problem, but maybe:

i needed the gutenprint driver to drive my epson Stylus C86
printer, and the only way seemed to be to compile it from the
source.  when i tried to compile it, "make" exited with the
error message that /usr/lib/libijs.so was the wrong format.

turned out that what it really wanted was /usr/lib64/libijs.so.
i got around this glitch by (temporarily) creating a soft
link (after removing the existing /usr/lib/libijs.so link):

ln -s /usr/lib64/libijs.so /usr/lib/libijs.so

and that solved the problem.  i have yet to hear if there's a
less hokey way to solve such problems, but this is the third
time i've seen evidence of it.

    -- peter

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On Aug 21, 2007 at  6:13 am, Michael Hannon wrote:
| Hi, folks.  I'm trying to get numpy and scipy installed on a 64-bit, SL5
| system.  I installed numpy from the tar ball, and that seemed to go OK,
| but when I tried to install scipy, there was a complaint, evidently from
| numpy, that blas and lapack could not be found.  I've installed all of
| the blas, blas-devel, lapack, and lapack-devel packages.  I guess the
| problem is to make numpy and scipy look in /usr/lib64, but I haven't
| figured out how to do that yet.
| 
| If you have suggestions, please pass 'em along to me.
| 
| Thanks.
| 
| 					- Mike
| 
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