On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 12:18 AM, Darren Dale <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Jarrod, > > On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 2:21 AM, Jarrod Millman <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> Due to the fact that I was tired of adding site.cfg to scipy and numpy >> when building on Fedora and Ubuntu systems as well as a scipy ticket >> (http://scipy.org/scipy/numpy/ticket/985), I decided to try and add >> default system paths to numpy.distutils. You can find out more >> details on this ticket: >> http://projects.scipy.org/scipy/scipy/ticket/817 >> >> I would like to have as many people test this as possible. So I would >> like everyone, who has had to build numpy/scipy with a site.cfg >> despite having installed all the dependencies in the system default >> locations, to test this. If you would please update to the numpy >> trunk and build numpy and scipy without your old site.cfg. Regardless >> of whether it works or not, I would appreciate it if you could let me >> know. > > I tested on Gentoo, which does some non-standard stuff in an attempt to be > able to switch between implementations. The libraries in /usr/lib are > symlinks to the implementations in /usr/lib/blas/, and you can have various > implementations like atlas, reference, or threaded-atlas, so I can run a > program called eselect that lets me switch between the implementations. For > some reason, gentoo renames the f77blas libs to simply blas.
That really baffles me. Why do distributions think it is ok to randomly rename libraries - they certainly could handle a eselect system without renaming libraries, so that they avoid breaking the softwares depending on the libraries, David _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list [email protected] http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
