[Numpy-discussion] Help building numpy

Ian Goodfellow goodfellow.ian at gmail.com
Fri Oct 8 10:40:50 EDT 2010


Is there a log file I should post or do you just mean to capture everything
that setup.py prints to stdout?

On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 10:06 AM, Benjamin Root <ben.root at ou.edu> wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 8:47 AM, Ian Goodfellow <goodfellow.ian at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Can anyone explain how to get numpy to recognize atlas? I have atlas built
>> and installed, and I put what I thought should be sufficient, based on
>> numpy's INSTALL.TXT, to make numpy use atlas in my site.cfg then ran python
>> setup.py install. The resulting build is incredibly slow. Multiplying a
>> 1,000 x 1,000 matrix takes 8 seconds. The default packages take .8 . On a
>> computer at work with a similar but slower cpu to mine, it only takes .2, so
>> I know I should be able to get a lot more speed out of numpy.
>>
>> This is my site.cfg:
>>
>> [atlas]
>> atlas_libs = lapack, f77blas, cblas, atlas
>>
>> [DEFAULT]
>> library_dirs = /usr/local/atlas/lib
>> include_dir = /usr/local/atlas/include
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Ian
>>
>>
> Ian, it would be very helpful if you could post the output from the build
> of numpy.  That log can tell us whether it found the libraries or not when
> building.
>
> Ben Root
>
>
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