# Error building obspy master branch
**URL:** https://discourse.obspy.org/t/error-building-obspy-master-branch/397
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**Created:** [March 11, 2015, 4:59pm UTC](https://discourse.obspy.org/t/error-building-obspy-master-branch/397 "2015-03-11T16:59:22Z")
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### Author:  [@Brad\_Aagaard](https://discourse.obspy.org/u/Brad_Aagaard)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2015, 4:59pm UTC](https://discourse.obspy.org/t/error-building-obspy-master-branch/397/1 "2015-03-11T16:59:22Z")
I am getting a link error building the obspy master branch.
The build is looking for libmseed\_Linux\_64bit\_py27.so. It looks in obspy/core/util/../../lib/
but the library is in
build/lib.linux-x86\_64-2.7/obspy/lib
The full backtrace from running "python setup.py build" is below.
Thanks,
Brad
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "setup.py", line 780, in \
setupPackage()
File "setup.py", line 749, in setupPackage
configuration=configuration)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/numpy/distutils/core.py", line 169, in setup
return old\_setup(\*\*new\_attr)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/core.py", line 151, in setup
dist.run\_commands()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py", line 953, in run\_commands
self.run\_command(cmd)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py", line 972, in run\_command
cmd\_obj.run()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/numpy/distutils/command/build.py", line 39, in run
old\_build.run(self)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/command/build.py", line 128, in run
self.run\_command(cmd\_name)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/cmd.py", line 326, in run\_command
self.distribution.run\_command(command)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py", line 972, in run\_command
cmd\_obj.run()
File "setup.py", line 699, in run
self.build\_taup\_models()
File "setup.py", line 673, in build\_taup\_models
with patch('obspy.core.util.libnames.\_load\_CDLL') as load:
File "build/bdist.linux-x86\_64/egg/mock.py", line 1252, in \_\_enter\_\_
File "build/bdist.linux-x86\_64/egg/mock.py", line 1414, in \
File "build/bdist.linux-x86\_64/egg/mock.py", line 1098, in \_importer
File "/tools/common/python-tools/src/obspy-dev/obspy/\_\_init\_\_.py", line 47, in \
read.\_\_doc\_\_ % make\_format\_plugin\_table("waveform", "read", numspaces=4)
File "/tools/common/python-tools/src/obspy-dev/obspy/core/util/base.py", line 473, in make\_format\_plugin\_table
"obspy.plugin.%s.%s" % (group, name), method)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg\_resources.py", line 351, in load\_entry\_point
return get\_distribution(dist).load\_entry\_point(group, name)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg\_resources.py", line 2363, in load\_entry\_point
return ep.load()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg\_resources.py", line 2088, in load
entry = \_\_import\_\_(self.module\_name, globals(),globals(), ['\_\_name\_\_'])
File "/tools/common/python-tools/src/obspy-dev/obspy/mseed/core.py", line 19, in \
from obspy.mseed import util
File "/tools/common/python-tools/src/obspy-dev/obspy/mseed/util.py", line 23, in \
from obspy.mseed.headers import (ENCODINGS, ENDIAN,
File "/tools/common/python-tools/src/obspy-dev/obspy/mseed/headers.py", line 22, in \
clibmseed = \_load\_CDLL("mseed")
File "/tools/common/python-tools/src/obspy-dev/obspy/core/util/libnames.py", line 97, in \_load\_CDLL
raise ImportError(msg)
ImportError: Could not load shared library "libmseed\_Linux\_64bit\_py27.so".
/tools/common/python-tools/src/obspy-dev/obspy/core/util/../../lib/libmseed\_Linux\_64bit\_py27.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
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### Author:  [@Elliott\_Sales\_de\_And](https://discourse.obspy.org/u/Elliott_Sales_de_And)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2015, 5:39am UTC](https://discourse.obspy.org/t/error-building-obspy-master-branch/397/2 "2015-03-13T05:39:52Z")
Hi Brad,
Can you try with this PR applied?
[https://github.com/obspy/obspy/pull/981](https://github.com/obspy/obspy/pull/981)