[SciPy-user] blas/lapack issue on a freebsd box...

[David Cournapeau]

fred wrote:
> Bad news.
> It seems it comes from atlas internals.
>
> The problem is that atlas is not provided as a binary package with 
> freebsd 6.2, and it takes several hours to build on my Pentium D 
> 930... :-(
>
Which version of atlas are you trying to build ? The recent (3.7.*) are 
much easier to build/configure; if your configuration is already done, 
atlas should build in less than one hour, specially if you use several 
jobs (to use if you have a lot of memory only), I think.

cheers.

David