On 11/4/07, Jouni K Sepp=E4nen <jk...@ik...> wrote: > Just a guess: Apple's Python is configured to compile everything as unive= rsal, > but you have installed a non-universal gcc in /usr/local, perhaps as a r= esult > of installing some version of gfortran. Possibly, but 'which gcc' points to the /usr/bin apple version, and the gfortran I installed was fortran only (not the whole gcc suite) and is in /usr/local/ Macintosh:~ jdhunter$ which gcc /usr/bin/gcc Macintosh:~ jdhunter$ ls -ld /usr/bin/gcc lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 7 Nov 3 18:00 /usr/bin/gcc -> gcc-4.0 Macintosh:~ jdhunter$ ls -ld /usr/bin/gcc-4.0 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 93072 Sep 23 17:37 /usr/bin/gcc-4.0 Macintosh:~ jdhunter$ ls -ld /usr/local/bin/g* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 160 Mar 22 2007 /usr/local/bin/genaxmodule -rwxr-xr-x@ 1 root wheel 318168 Oct 31 08:27 /usr/local/bin/gfortran mpl should not be invoking gfortran, so I am not sure where the problem is creeping in. JDH JDH