Re: [Numpy-discussion] building numpy with atlas on ubuntu edgy

2007-04-18 Thread Keith Goodman
On 4/17/07, David Cournapeau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now that you mention it, I am also puzzled by this one: I can see why you would use atlas3-sse2-dev without atlas3-base-dev (for the static library), but not having atlas3-base-dev makes it imposible to dynamically link to atlas libraries

Re: [Numpy-discussion] building numpy with atlas on ubuntu edgy

2007-04-18 Thread Charles R Harris
On 4/18/07, Keith Goodman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/17/07, David Cournapeau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now that you mention it, I am also puzzled by this one: I can see why you would use atlas3-sse2-dev without atlas3-base-dev (for the static library), but not having atlas3-base-dev makes

Re: [Numpy-discussion] building numpy with atlas on ubuntu edgy

2007-04-18 Thread Keith Goodman
On 4/18/07, Charles R Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/18/07, Keith Goodman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to compile atlas so that I can take full advantage of my core 2 duo. Numpy dynamically links to the debian binary of atlas-sse that I installed. But the atlas website says that

Re: [Numpy-discussion] building numpy with atlas on ubuntu edgy

2007-04-18 Thread rex
Keith Goodman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-04-18 10:49]: I'd like to compile atlas so that I can take full advantage of my core 2 duo. If your use is entirely non-commercial you can use Intel's MKL with built-in optimized BLAS and LAPACK and avoid the need for ATLAS.

Re: [Numpy-discussion] building numpy with atlas on ubuntu edgy

2007-04-18 Thread Keith Goodman
On 4/18/07, rex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Keith Goodman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-04-18 10:49]: I'd like to compile atlas so that I can take full advantage of my core 2 duo. If your use is entirely non-commercial you can use Intel's MKL with built-in optimized BLAS and LAPACK and avoid the

Re: [Numpy-discussion] building numpy with atlas on ubuntu edgy

2007-04-18 Thread Andrew Straw
rex wrote: Keith Goodman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-04-18 10:49]: I'd like to compile atlas so that I can take full advantage of my core 2 duo. If your use is entirely non-commercial you can use Intel's MKL with built-in optimized BLAS and LAPACK and avoid the need for ATLAS.

Re: [Numpy-discussion] building numpy with atlas on ubuntu edgy

2007-04-18 Thread Christian Marquardt
Sun has recently released their compilers under an opensource license for Linux as well (Sun Studio Express or something), including their perflib - which includes Blas and Lapack. Has somebody tried how that combination performs, compared to Intel MKL or Atlas? I think they are free even for

Re: [Numpy-discussion] building numpy with atlas on ubuntu edgy

2007-04-18 Thread Peter C. Norton
I'm having great difficulty building numpy on solaris with the sun compilers and libsunperf. I may try this on ubuntu x86_64 to see if the setup is less painful. Thanks for the idea, -Peter On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 11:04:26PM +0200, Christian Marquardt wrote: Sun has recently released their

Re: [Numpy-discussion] building numpy with atlas on ubuntu edgy

2007-04-18 Thread David Cournapeau
Robert Kern wrote: Charles R Harris wrote: I don't know which is best, although I suspect the statically linked version will be larger. It might seem that just pulling in the gemm routines wouldn't add much, but they pull in lots of supporting routines. To get numpy to link statically

Re: [Numpy-discussion] building numpy with atlas on ubuntu edgy

2007-04-18 Thread Robert Kern
Charles R Harris wrote: I'm wondering if the static libraries could simply be compiled with the -fPIC flag and linked with the program to produce the dynamic library. The static libraries are just collections of *.o files, so I don't see why that shouldn't work. I don't think there is a

Re: [Numpy-discussion] building numpy with atlas on ubuntu edgy

2007-04-18 Thread David Cournapeau
Charles R Harris wrote: On 4/18/07, *Keith Goodman* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/18/07, Charles R Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/18/07, Keith Goodman [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd

Re: [Numpy-discussion] building numpy with atlas on ubuntu edgy

2007-04-18 Thread David Cournapeau
Robert Kern wrote: Charles R Harris wrote: I'm wondering if the static libraries could simply be compiled with the -fPIC flag and linked with the program to produce the dynamic library. The static libraries are just collections of *.o files, so I don't see why that shouldn't work. I don't

Re: [Numpy-discussion] building numpy with atlas on ubuntu edgy

2007-04-18 Thread Robert Kern
David Cournapeau wrote: Robert Kern wrote: Charles R Harris wrote: I'm wondering if the static libraries could simply be compiled with the -fPIC flag and linked with the program to produce the dynamic library. The static libraries are just collections of *.o files, so I don't see why that

Re: [Numpy-discussion] building numpy with atlas on ubuntu edgy

2007-04-18 Thread Charles R Harris
On 4/18/07, Robert Kern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Charles R Harris wrote: I'm wondering if the static libraries could simply be compiled with the -fPIC flag and linked with the program to produce the dynamic library. The static libraries are just collections of *.o files, so I don't see why

Re: [Numpy-discussion] building numpy with atlas on ubuntu edgy

2007-04-18 Thread Robert Kern
Charles R Harris wrote: On 4/18/07, *Robert Kern* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Charles R Harris wrote: I'm wondering if the static libraries could simply be compiled with the -fPIC flag and linked with the program to produce the dynamic library.

Re: [Numpy-discussion] building numpy with atlas on ubuntu edgy

2007-04-17 Thread Andrew Straw
Christian K wrote: David Cournapeau wrote: On Ubuntu and debian, you do NOT need any site.cfg to compile numpy with atlas support. Just install the package atlas3-base-dev, and you are done. The reason is that when *compiling* a software which needs atlas, the linker will try to find

Re: [Numpy-discussion] building numpy with atlas on ubuntu edgy

2007-04-17 Thread David Cournapeau
Andrew Straw wrote: Christian K wrote: David Cournapeau wrote: On Ubuntu and debian, you do NOT need any site.cfg to compile numpy with atlas support. Just install the package atlas3-base-dev, and you are done. The reason is that when *compiling* a software which needs atlas,

Re: [Numpy-discussion] building numpy with atlas on ubuntu edgy

2007-04-15 Thread David Cournapeau
Christian K wrote: Thanks, but that didn't help: atlas_info: libraries lapack not found in /usr/lib/sse2 libraries f77blas,cblas,atlas not found in /usr/lib/atlas libraries lapack_atlas not found in /usr/lib/atlas libraries lapack not found in /usr/lib/sse2 libraries

Re: [Numpy-discussion] building numpy with atlas on ubuntu edgy

2007-04-15 Thread Charles R Harris
On 4/15/07, David Cournapeau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christian K wrote: Thanks, but that didn't help: atlas_info: libraries lapack not found in /usr/lib/sse2 libraries f77blas,cblas,atlas not found in /usr/lib/atlas libraries lapack_atlas not found in /usr/lib/atlas libraries

Re: [Numpy-discussion] building numpy with atlas on ubuntu edgy

2007-04-15 Thread David Cournapeau
Charles R Harris wrote: On 4/15/07, *David Cournapeau* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christian K wrote: Thanks, but that didn't help: atlas_info: libraries lapack not found in /usr/lib/sse2 libraries f77blas,cblas,atlas not

Re: [Numpy-discussion] building numpy with atlas on ubuntu edgy

2007-04-14 Thread Christian K
Robert Kern wrote: Christian K wrote: Hi, I'm trying to build numpy from svn on ubuntu edgy with atlas provided by ubuntu package atlas3-sse2-dev which contains: /usr /usr/lib /usr/lib/sse2 /usr/lib/sse2/libatlas.a /usr/lib/sse2/libcblas.a /usr/lib/sse2/libf77blas.a

Re: [Numpy-discussion] building numpy with atlas on ubuntu edgy

2007-04-13 Thread Christian K
Christian K wrote: Hi, I'm trying to build numpy from svn on ubuntu edgy with atlas provided by ubuntu package atlas3-sse2-dev which contains: [...] I tried both with and without a site.cfg: [DEFAULT] library_dirs = /usr/lib/sse2 include_dirs = /usr/include [blas_opt]