[Numpy-discussion] ANN: Numpy 1.6.1 release candidate 1

[Ralf Gommers]

On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 10:05 PM, Ralf Gommers
<ralf.gommers at googlemail.com>wrote:

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> On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 4:38 PM, Bruce Southey <bsouthey at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On 06/21/2011 01:01 AM, Ralf Gommers wrote:
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>> On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 3:55 AM, Bruce Southey <bsouthey at gmail.com>wrote:
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>>> So what is the actual name of the multiarray shared library with the Mac?
>>> If it is ' 'multiarray.so' then the correct name is "libname +
>>> sysconfig.get_config_var('SO')" as I previously indicated.
>>>
>>>  It is, and yes that's correct. Orthogonal to the actual issue though.
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>> Ralf
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>> While the test now pass, you have now changed an API for load_library.
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> Only in a backwards-compatible way, which should be fine. I added a
> keyword, the default of which does the same as before. The only thing I did
> other than that was remove tries with clearly invalid extensions, like
> ".pyd" on Linux. Now that I'm writing that though, I think it's better to
> try both ".so" and ".cpython-32mu.so" by default for python >=3.2.
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This should try both extensions:
https://github.com/rgommers/numpy/tree/sharedlibext
Does that look better?

Ralf


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>> This is not something that is meant to occur in a bug-fix release as well
>> as the new argument is undocumented. But I do not understand the need for
>> this extra complexity when "libname + sysconfig.get_config_var('SO')" works
>> on Linux, Windows and Mac.
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>> I've tried to explain this twice already. You have both "
> multiarray.cpython-32mu.so" and "liblapack.so" (or some other library like
> that) on your system. The extension of both is needed, and always obtained
> via get_config_var('SO'). See the problem?
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> If someone knows a better way to do this, I'm all for it. But I don't see a
> simpler way.
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> Cheers,
> Ralf
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