Re: [Numpy-discussion] Building numpy - setting the run path

Peter C. Norton wrote:

Building numpy for my company's solaris distribution involves requring a run_path for the lapack+blas libraries we're using (libsunperf, though I'm considering swapping out for gsl since we may use that).

The situation we're in is that we need gcc to get the -R for paths like /usr/local/gnu/lib /usr/local/python2.5.1/lib, etc. but the default python distutils raise a not implemented exception on this. May I ask what the -R path option is doing ? I cannot find it in the doc of my gcc (on linux), and from your email, I don't see what it is doing ? Does it say where to find library when linking ? When running ? Does it set the patch in the binary ?

David