[SciPy-User] Using LU Decomposition from UMFPACK?

[Skipper Seabold]

On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 4:50 PM, Skipper Seabold <jsseabold at gmail.com>wrote:

> I thought I built scipy with UMFPACK support but I can't seem to get this
> to work. I would like to do a sparse LU decomposition and recover the U
> matrix.
>
> I built SuiteSparse so long ago, so might there have been a build issue I
> haven't noticed until now?
>
> scipy.test() does not show any errors, though there are 28 skipped tests.
>
> Does this work for anyone?
>
> [~/]
> [1]: from scipy import version
>
> [~/]
> [2]: version.full_version
> [2]: '0.13.0.dev-61f05fe'
>
> [~/]
> [3]: from scipy.sparse.linalg.dsolve import umfpack
>
> [~/]
> [4]: umf = umfpack.UmfpackContext()
> Exception AttributeError: "'UmfpackContext' object has no attribute
> '_symbolic'" in <bound method UmfpackContext.__del__ of
> <scipy.sparse.linalg.dsolve.umfpack.umfpack.UmfpackContext object at
> 0x56c0b10>> ignored
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ImportError                               Traceback (most recent call last)
> <ipython-input-3-2e28850f247d> in <module>()
> ----> 1 umf = umfpack.UmfpackContext("di")
>
> /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/scipy/sparse/linalg/dsolve/umfpack/umfpack.pyc
> in __init__(self, family, **kwargs)
>     279                    a warning is issued (default: 1e12)"""
>     280         if _um is None:
> --> 281             raise ImportError('Scipy was built without UMFPACK
> support. '
>     282                               'You need to install the UMFPACK
> library and '
>     283                               'header files before building
> scipy.')
>
> ImportError: Scipy was built without UMFPACK support. You need to install
> the UMFPACK library and header files before building scipy.
>
> [~/]
> [5]: from scipy import show_config
>
> [~/]
> [6]: show_config()
> amd_info:
>     libraries = ['amd']
>     library_dirs = ['/home/skipper/atlas_build2/lib']
>     define_macros = [('SCIPY_AMD_H', None)]
>     swig_opts = ['-I/home/skipper/atlas_build2/include']
>     include_dirs = ['/home/skipper/atlas_build2/include']
> umfpack_info:
>     libraries = ['umfpack', 'amd']
>     library_dirs = ['/home/skipper/atlas_build2/lib']
>
>     define_macros = [('SCIPY_UMFPACK_H', None), ('SCIPY_AMD_H', None)]
>
>     swig_opts = ['-I/home/skipper/atlas_build2/include',
> '-I/home/skipper/atlas_build2/include']
>
>     include_dirs = ['/home/skipper/atlas_build2/include']
> atlas_threads_info:
>     libraries = ['lapack', 'ptf77blas', 'ptcblas', 'atlas']
>     library_dirs = ['/home/skipper/atlas_build2/lib']
>     define_macros = [('NO_ATLAS_INFO', -1)]
>     language = f77
>     include_dirs = ['/home/skipper/atlas_build2/include']
> blas_opt_info:
>     libraries = ['ptf77blas', 'ptcblas', 'atlas']
>     library_dirs = ['/home/skipper/atlas_build2/lib']
>     define_macros = [('NO_ATLAS_INFO', -1)]
>     language = c
>     include_dirs = ['/home/skipper/atlas_build2/include']
> atlas_blas_threads_info:
>     libraries = ['ptf77blas', 'ptcblas', 'atlas']
>     library_dirs = ['/home/skipper/atlas_build2/lib']
>     define_macros = [('NO_ATLAS_INFO', -1)]
>     language = c
>     include_dirs = ['/home/skipper/atlas_build2/include']
> lapack_opt_info:
>     libraries = ['lapack', 'ptf77blas', 'ptcblas', 'atlas']
>     library_dirs = ['/home/skipper/atlas_build2/lib']
>     define_macros = [('NO_ATLAS_INFO', -1)]
>     language = f77
>     include_dirs = ['/home/skipper/atlas_build2/include']
> lapack_mkl_info:
>   NOT AVAILABLE
> blas_mkl_info:
>   NOT AVAILABLE
> mkl_info:
>   NOT AVAILABLE
>
> Skipper
>

Ah, might it be this? From SuiteSparse/AMD/Doc/ChangeLog

Jun 1, 2012: version 2.3.0

    * changed from UFconfig to SuiteSparse_config

Skipper
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