[SciPy-user] atlas troubles during install (yes I know, I am not the first one)

[Pearu Peterson]

On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Kasper Souren wrote:

> On Thursday 16 January 2003 20:08, Pearu Peterson wrote:
> > How did you specify the location of atlas libraries?
> 
> I used site.cfg. I also tried the ATLAS variable, but obviously I didn't 
> specify the right directory.
> 
> > Currently I can think of only one situation where the above behaviour
> > could be possible: if the location of atlas libraries was specified
> > using relative path. If this was so in your case, then try using absolute
> > path in ATLAS environment variable.
> > In case you didn't use ATLAS environment variable, then try
> >
> >  ATLAS=/u/formes/share/lib/i686-Linux-2.4.9-13/atlas python setup.py build
> 
> And this works!

Nice.

> Here was the relevant part of site.cfg:
> 
> [DEFAULT]
> library_dirs = /u/formes/share/lib/i686-Linux-2.4.9-13/:/usr/lib
> include_dirs = /u/formes/share/include/:/usr/include
> 
> [atlas]
> library_dirs = /u/formes/share/lib/i686-Linux-2.4.9-13/atlas/
> include_dirs = /u/formes/share/include/ATLAS/
> 
> I had also tried several variations, but without success.

The above site.cfg looks good and system_info.py found these atlas
libraries correctly in the first case. However, when running python inside
linalg library, then site.cfg was not found by system_info.py (that,
I guess, was picked up from installed scipy_distutils instead of
cvs/scipy/scipy_distutils) and therefore atlas libraries were not found in
the second case.
I'll look how to fix this later.. until then the site.cfg feature
regarding specifying atlas libraries in site.cfg file is broken.

Pearu