On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 11:53 PM, David Cournapeau <[email protected]>wrote:
> 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, > I am in complete agreement. I've raised the issue with them before and didnt make any headway. Maybe its time to try again. Darren
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