[SciPy-user] installing numeric, newbie

[Andrew Fant]

On the topic of Gentoo and SciPy I have a related question.   Gentoo is in 
the process of virtualizing blas and lapack so that they always appear to 
be /usr/lib/libblas.{so|a} and /usr/lib/liblapack.{so.a}, no matter whether 
they are the reference implementation or the atlas optimized version.  The 
good news is that there is an ebuild in testing for SciPy that does 
successfully build it on Gentoo.  The problem is that it appears that 
setup.py in SciPy uses the library name to identify the capacities of the 
library.  Because the library found is libblas.so, there is no threading 
and no attempt to take full advantage of the atlas implementation.

Is there any way to force setup.py to use the atlas interface?  There are 
blas-config and lapack-config programs that work like gnome-config which 
can provide the includes and library search directories for the active 
version of blas and lapack, but I am not sure that my python-fu is up to 
patching the setup.py file myself.  I'd appreciate any hints and 
suggestions that other people have.  If there are other gentoo types 
reading this, it's bug #51926 in bugzilla.

Thanks,
	Andy


P.S.  The Numeric and f2py ebuilds work just fine for building SciPy on 
Gentoo, fwiw.


--On Thursday, September 16, 2004 09:41:21 -0400 tom fogal 
<tfogal at apollo.sr.unh.edu> wrote:

> Before I get into my email, I noted earlier that you were using gentoo.
> Why not just 'emerge -v numeric'? It should take care of dependencies
> automatically. You might need to do some tweaking to your USE flags to
> enable optional dependencies that you want.