[Numpy-discussion] doc bug in numarray 1.1

[Chris Barker]

HI all,

I just installed numarray 1.1. All went well with setup.py. Then I 
decided to try to build it against an atlas lapack. I found, under the 
Linear Algebra section:

"""
the setup procedure needs to be modified to force the lapack_lite module 
to be linked against those rather than the builtin replacement functions.


Edit Packages/LinearAlgebra2/setup.py and edit the variables sourcelist, 
lapack_dirs, and lapack_libs.


In sourcelist you should remove all sourcefiles besides ....
"""

but there is no:

Packages/LinearAlgebra2/setup.py

However, I did find in:

addons.py

"""
if os.environ.has_key('USE_LAPACK'):
     BUILTIN_BLAS_LAPACK = 0
else:
     BUILTIN_BLAS_LAPACK = 1
"""

so I tried:

export USE_LAPACK=true
python setup.py build --gencode

Now it appears to be compiling linear_algebra differently, as I now get 
a linking error, can't find:

f90math, fio, or f77math

However, if I remove those from lapack_libs in addons.py, I can get it 
to compile, install, and as far as I can tell, run fine. Why are they in 
that list?

By the way, this is all under Gentoo Linux.

-Chris











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