[Numpy-discussion] Adding ACML support

[David Cournapeau]

On Nov 23, 2007 3:02 AM, Matthieu Brucher <matthieu.brucher at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to get numpy work with AMD's MKL. The problem is that they not
> give a CBLAS interface, only the BLAS one.
> Can the numpy distutils check the existence of the cblas interface somewhere
> ? For the moment, it checks something with BLAS (but no actual testing takes
> place), but not CBLAS.
>
My understanding, but that's only from having read the distutils
sources, is that you don't check for cblas. You implement a acml
checker, like MKL, but you have to define NO_ATLAS_INFO to 1 to say
that cblas is not available (if you read the setup.py of numpy.core,
which needs cblas and not blas, you will see that's how it is decide
whether _dotblas should be built or not).

David