Hi Ralf, I think it would be very hard for anyone but a professional programmer to build scipy with the current directions. It was a very time consuming. Since ATLAS takes so long to compile, I could only try a new build method about once a day. The directions on scipy.org reference older versions and are confusing. They should be updated for the current versions, including prerequisites. The directions should prominently note how to configure a site.cfg file prior to building numpy, which is a prerequisite to building scipy. Without the numpy site.cfg step, I was left searching and rebuilding many, many times. I tried different options to the BLAS and LAPACK environment variables. I even tried to build reference versions of BLAS. I was desperate. The numpy build with a proper site.cfg was what finally made things work for me. Cheers. On 02/22/2011 05:22 AM, Ralf Gommers wrote:

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 4:06 AM, Gavin W. Burris <bug@sas.upenn.edu> wrote:

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Hello SciPy people,

I just spent a few days trying to figure out the build process for SciPy on our new Linux desktops. It was an arduous journey, and I though I should share: http://idolinux.blogspot.com/2011/02/atlas-numpy-scipy-build-on-rhel-6.html

It seems to be working fine now. Tips and pointers are much appreciated.

Thanks for sharing Gavin. It looks like you followed the explanation at http://scipy.org/Installing_SciPy/Linux pretty closely. Can you think of any changes to that description that would have made your life easier? Or did you look at some other doc?

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