[Numpy-discussion] site.cfg: Custom BLAS / LAPACK configuration

[David Cournapeau]

On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 7:13 PM, Bradley M. Froehle
<brad.froehle at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks Alexander, that was quite helpful, but unfortunately does not
> actually work. The recommendations there are akin to a site.cfg file:
>
> [atlas]
> atlas_libs =
> library_dirs =
>
> [blas]
> blas_libs = cblas,acml
> library_dirs = /opt/acml5.2.0/gfortan64_fma4/lib
>
> [lapack]
> blas_libs = cblas,acml
> library_dirs = /opt/acml5.2.0/gfortan64_fma4/lib
> $ python setup.py build
>
> However this makes numpy think that there is no optimized blas available and
> prevents the numpy.core._dotblas module from being built.

_dotblas is only built if *C*blas is available (atlas, accelerate and
mkl only are supported ATM).

David