[Numpy-discussion] Da Blas

[Scott M. Ransom]

Frank Horowitz wrote:
> 
> However, when I
> coerced the distutils system to get around that bug (by specifying
> "/usr/lib " with a trailing blank for the BLASLIBDIR and LAPACKLIBDIR
> variables in setup.py) the same problem (i.e. an "ImportError:
> /usr/lib/liblapack.so.3: undefined symbol: e_wsfe" in importing
> lapack_lite) ultimately manifested itself.

This problem is easily fixed (at least on linux) by performing the link
of lapack_lite.so with g77 instead of gcc (this is required because the
lapack and/or blas libraries are based on fortran object files...).

For instance the out-of-box link command on my machine (Debian 2.2) is:

gcc -shared build/temp.linux2/Src/lapack_litemodule.o -L/usr/local/lib
-L/usr/lib -llapack -lblas -o build/lib.linux2/lapack_lite.so

Simply change the 'gcc' to 'g77' and everything works nicely.

Not sure if this is specific to Linux or not...

Scott
 
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