[SciPy-user] CLAPACK vs. LAPACK?

eric jones eric at enthought.com
Fri Sep 20 03:12:01 EDT 2002


> >>>>> "eric" == eric jones <eric at enthought.com> writes:
> 
>     eric> I like keeping the name of clapack and flapack, or rename
them
> to
>     eric> lapackc and lapackf if the names really are that confusing.
> 
> It's not so much that they are confusing, but that when missing the
> warning
> message is misleading.  I saw the warning about "clapack" missing and
went
> looking for a CLAPACK library, which does exist.  Perhaps the warning
> should (if it doesn't already) suggest the user install atlas.

Perhaps we should just remove the warning since things will work
correctly, albeit a little slower, with the flapack wrappers.  Pearu,
what do you think?

Eric





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