Feb. 16, 2001
7:32 p.m.
I am preparing a patch to Numeric 17.3.0 that allows for easier integration of native BLAS/Lapack libraries with Numeric's dot() function and with the LAPACK package. What I would like to know is how/where should I specify build preferences. The current situation is that I have added a config.py to the top directory. Inside this file, python variables like HAVE_CBLAS and/or HAVE_FBLAS control linking and preprocessor flags. By default, the distribution would build w/o the native libraries. Necessary info like library directories, includes and link flags would be listed as well and available to distutils for Numeric and any of it's sub-packages. How does this approach sound? -chris