[Pythonmac-SIG] SciPy-0.2.0

[Lance Boyle]

I would also be most grateful.
Jerry


On Tuesday, Apr 22, 2003, at 12:43 America/Phoenix, Leighton Pritchard 
wrote:

> At 15:04 21/04/2003 +0930, you wrote:
>> On Sunday, April 20, 2003, at 07:02  AM, Willard Myers wrote:
>>> On Friday, Apr 18, 2003, at 00:35 America/New_York, Andrew Straw 
>>> wrote:
>>>> I've got scipy working just fine on my mac os x box.  I'm using 
>>>> MacPython 2.3a2 and a recent CVS checkout of scipy.
>>>
>>> Thanks! It helps to know that it is doable.
>>>
>>> If you have a moment, I'd like to know how you dealt with building 
>>> the fortran source, and whether or not you found a way to use 
>>> Apple's BLAS and LAPACK libraries in the vecLib framework?
>>
>> That's funny -- I asked the same thing on the SciPy list several 
>> months ago.  It seems like a good idea, but IIRC the scipy folks wrap 
>> fortran, and I think the apple stuff is CLAPACK.  Still, although I'm 
>> not an expert on this stuff and haven't done any benchmarking, I've 
>> been using ATLAS, which seems fast.  I used fink to install atlas, 
>> etc (and even a version of python that I never use), and then I 
>> compiled scipy from CVS after creating (from a default copy sitting 
>> nearby) scipy_core/scipy_distutils/site.cfg and adding /sw/lib and 
>> /sw/include to the [DEFAULT] section.
>>
>> It's worth it.
>
> Hi there,
>
> I'm having real difficulties getting SciPy going on OS X 10.2. I've 
> tried compiling from two different source downloads and the most 
> recent CVS checkout. I have ATLAS, FFTW from Fink, and wxPython from a 
> source build.
>
> I for one would be very grateful if you could give a walkthrough of 
> what you did to get SciPy up-and-running on your machine.
>
> All the best,
>
>
> Dr Leighton Pritchard AMRSC