[SciPy-user] scipy build with gcc on solaris problems

[Robert Kern]

On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 6:30 AM, John Reid <j.reid at mail.cryst.bbk.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>
>  Robert Kern wrote:
>  >>  My guess is that I need to compile LAPACK and ATLAS with a combination
>  >>  of f77 and cc. The documentation for ATLAS strongly suggests using gcc
>  >>  though. Should I ignore this?
>  >
>  > I don't know any specific details about building on Solaris, but using
>  > a different compiler for the ATLAS library than your Python is
>  > probably not going to work too well.
>  >
>
>  ATLAS uses different compilers in 8 or so different ways. You are
>  suggesting I want to change all of them?

3-8 probably. But like I said, I know very few details about building
ATLAS or scipy on Solaris. I'm out of my depth.

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless
enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as
though it had an underlying truth."
  -- Umberto Eco