[SciPy-user] scipy 0.7.0.dev4373 + atlas FAILED (failures=2, errors=12)
Johann Cohen-Tanugi
cohen at slac.stanford.edu
Sun May 18 05:21:49 EDT 2008
Salut!
Super... je m'etais promis de tester ton setup numscons, et bien entendu
j'ai pas trouvé le temps ;) Une raison de plus pour essayer, mais le
marathon d'abord!
Johann
David Cournapeau wrote:
> Johann Cohen-Tanugi wrote:
>
>> well, I am not sure the doc marathon will deal with building scipy, at
>> least as a priority....
>>
>
> Yes, I agree. I think too many people try to build all the dependencies
> by themselves, and are surprised it is difficult. Frankly, I almost
> think it would be good to have less documentation, as an
> 'anti-incentive'. Building software which rely on binaries linked with
> several languages is just something inherently difficult and requires a
> lot of knowledge for the platform. The fact that ATLAS, BLAS and LAPACK
> use non standard build procedures certainly does not help either.
>
>
>> This is going to remain a very tough issue
>> because scipy depends on packages that are complex and hard to build.
>> Note that if you dont need smart lin. algebra you still have plenty of
>> good stuff in scipy despite this lapack failure. Maybe what would be
>> nice is for the scipy build process to clearly disable some specific
>> libs if something goes wrong and report it at the end of the build.
>>
>
> That's one of the reason I worked on numscons: in numscons, all
> dependencies are actually checked, contrary to numpy.distutils which
> just checks for the *presence* of a dependency. For example, if your
> atlas is somewhat buggy and cannot be linked, numscons detects it
> because before using atlas, it tries to build/run a small program which
> uses atlas, and this is logged.
>
> cheers,
>
> David
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