[Numpy-discussion] HOWTO build NumPy without external math libs

[Charles R Harris]

On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 12:25 AM, Stefan Seefeld <seefeld at sympatico.ca>wrote:

> On 07/13/2010 04:05 PM, Christopher Barker wrote:
> > Robert Kern wrote:
> >
> >>> I don't believe that there are any such options, but is there a
> particular
> >>> reason why you *don't* want to use such external libs if you have them?
>  I
> >>> don't think anyone has considered a use-case where one would want to
> ignore
> >>> such libraries.
> >>>
> >> Building redistributable binaries.
> >>
> > indeed -- and it is quite possible.
> >
> > It looks like things have changed since I last did it, but take a look
> > at setup.cfg.example, you should be able to figure it out.
> >
>
> Thanks, I will look and try.
>
> It would be great if such an option could be added; I'm sure I'm not the
> only one who wants this. (And, just to confirm: I'm indeed attempting to
> "cross-compile", in the sense that I build the package on one machine,
> then distribute it onto a set of hosts, which don't all look equal, but
> equal enough as to allow me to reuse the compiled NumPy package, as long
> as it doesn't depend on the particular linalg libs that happen to be
> installed on the build machine.
>
>
IIRC, there is a command line option for this, I just don't remember what it
is.

Chuck
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