[Numpy-discussion] Building numpy - setting the run path

[Albert Strasheim]

Hello

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter C. Norton" <spacey-numpy-discussion at lenin.net>
To: <numpy-discussion at scipy.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2007 12:27 AM
Subject: [Numpy-discussion] Building numpy - setting the run path


> Building numpy for my company's solaris distribution involves requring
> a run_path for the lapack+blas libraries we're using (libsunperf,
> though I'm considering swapping out for gsl since we may use that).
>
> The situation we're in is that we need gcc to get the -R for paths
> like /usr/local/gnu/lib /usr/local/python2.5.1/lib, etc. but the
> default python distutils raise a not implemented exception on this.

On Linux I've set the LD_RUN_PATH environment variable prior to compiling my 
programs. It seemed to do the trick. I don't know if this works on Solaris, 
though. A quick Google seems to indicate that LD_RUN_PATH is a GCC thing.

Cheers,

Albert