[SciPy-dev] scipy distutils questions

[Pearu Peterson]

On Wed, 14 Dec 2005, Arnd Baecker wrote:

> Is there a way to convince him to look for the 64 Bit variant
> under /opt/intel/mkl72/64 ??

In system_info.py mkl72/64 is used when cpu.is_Itanium() is true.
What is the output of
   python scipy/distutils/cpuinfo.py
in your case?

> Presently  the result is
>
> #------------------
> python scipy/distutils/system_info.py lapack_opt
> lapack_opt_info:
> lapack_mkl_info:
> mkl_info:
>  FOUND:
>    libraries = ['mkl_ia32', 'mkl', 'vml', 'guide', 'pthread']
>    library_dirs = ['/opt/intel/mkl72/lib/32']
>    include_dirs = ['/opt/intel/mkl72/include']
>
>  FOUND:
>    libraries = ['mkl_lapack', 'mkl_ia32', 'mkl', 'vml', 'guide',
> 'pthread']
>    library_dirs = ['/opt/intel/mkl72/lib/32']
>    include_dirs = ['/opt/intel/mkl72/include']
>
> ( library_dirs = /home/baecker/python2/lib:/usr/local/lib:/usr/lib )
>  FOUND:
>    libraries = ['mkl_lapack', 'mkl_ia32', 'mkl', 'vml', 'guide',
> 'pthread']
>    library_dirs = ['/opt/intel/mkl72/lib/32']
>    include_dirs = ['/opt/intel/mkl72/include']
> #----------------
>
>
> I tried
>
> [mkl_libs]    or [mkl_lapack]  or [mkl]
> library_dirs = /opt/intel/mkl72/lib/64
> include_dirs = /opt/intel/mkl72/include/

Hmm,

[mkl]
library_dirs = ..
include_dirs = ..

should have worked. Btw, though people use site.cfg, I don't use it 
myself, it's better to fix/extend system_info.py so that people wouldn't 
have to use site.cfg.

> but non worked?
>
>> To disable detecting mkl, define environment variable MKL=None.
>> For mkl 7.x versions one may need to fix library names (8.x does not have
>> ifcore, for instance) in system_info.py.
>
>
> For the full scipy I suspect that we will run into
> the single/double precision lapack routines problem
> (libmkl_lapack32.so provides all the s* and c*
> while libmkl_lapack64.so provides the d* and z* routines),
> but one thing after another ... ;-)

But isn't libmkl_lapack include both precision lapack routines?
This seems to be the case with mkl 8.x anyway. Could you send me the link 
of mkl 7.x readme file that explains then contents of mkl?

Thanks,
Pearu