Re: [Numpy-discussion] numpy setup.py too restrictive, prevents use of fblas with cblas

2008-04-17 Thread George Nurser
> I am guessing that he built the cblas interface from here: > > http://www.netlib.org/blas/blast-forum/cblas.tgz > > Note that this is same C interface provided by ATLAS, the MKL, and > GOTO and is *not* the version simply converted from the FORTRAN using > f2c. It calls the (hopefully accele

Re: [Numpy-discussion] numpy setup.py too restrictive, prevents use of fblas with cblas

2008-04-16 Thread Robert Kern
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 4:56 PM, Andreas Klöckner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mittwoch 16 April 2008, Stéfan van der Walt wrote: > > The inclusion of those cblas routines sounds like a good idea. Could > > you describe which we need, and what would be required to get this > > done? > > Sup

Re: [Numpy-discussion] numpy setup.py too restrictive, prevents use of fblas with cblas

2008-04-16 Thread Andreas Klöckner
On Mittwoch 16 April 2008, Stéfan van der Walt wrote: > The inclusion of those cblas routines sounds like a good idea. Could > you describe which we need, and what would be required to get this > done? Suppose cblas gets included in numpy, but for some reason someone decides to link another copy

Re: [Numpy-discussion] numpy setup.py too restrictive, prevents use of fblas with cblas

2008-04-16 Thread Robert Kern
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 3:37 PM, Stéfan van der Walt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Robert > > On 16/04/2008, Robert Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The correct fix needs to be more sophisticated than removing those two > > lines. We need to recognize the MKL and the GOTO BLAS and allow t

Re: [Numpy-discussion] numpy setup.py too restrictive, prevents use of fblas with cblas

2008-04-16 Thread Stéfan van der Walt
Hi Robert On 16/04/2008, Robert Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The correct fix needs to be more sophisticated than removing those two > lines. We need to recognize the MKL and the GOTO BLAS and allow them, > too. It might also be worth including the appropriate subset of the > cblas code pr

Re: [Numpy-discussion] numpy setup.py too restrictive, prevents use of fblas with cblas

2008-04-16 Thread Robert Kern
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 9:11 AM, Travis E. Oliphant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > George Nurser wrote: > > Apologies for coming out of the woodwork so late here.. > > > > For blas/atlas etc in numpy & scipy on an opteron I use the AMD > > libraries (which only have fblas) together with cblas. Th

Re: [Numpy-discussion] numpy setup.py too restrictive, prevents use of fblas with cblas

2008-04-16 Thread Travis E. Oliphant
George Nurser wrote: > Apologies for coming out of the woodwork so late here.. > > For blas/atlas etc in numpy & scipy on an opteron I use the AMD > libraries (which only have fblas) together with cblas. This works very > well. > > Current-ish SVN (v4779) in line 295-296 of numpy/core/setup.py has

[Numpy-discussion] numpy setup.py too restrictive, prevents use of fblas with cblas

2008-04-16 Thread George Nurser
Apologies for coming out of the woodwork so late here.. For blas/atlas etc in numpy & scipy on an opteron I use the AMD libraries (which only have fblas) together with cblas. This works very well. Current-ish SVN (v4779) in line 295-296 of numpy/core/setup.py has: if ('NO_ATLAS_INFO