[SciPy-dev] Why no ATLAS?

[Pearu Peterson]

On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Skip Montanaro wrote:

> 
> Given this environment:
> 
>     bash-2.05$ ATLAS=$HOME/src/ATLAS/lib/SunOS_gcc ; export ATLAS
>     bash-2.05$ BLAS=$HOME/src/BLAS/sungcc ; export BLAS
>     bash-2.05$ LAPACK=$HOME/src/LAPACK/Sun_GCC ; export LAPACK
>     bash-2.05$ ls -lL $ATLAS
>     total 13056
>     -rw-r--r--   1 skip     skip        6181 Sep 23 10:57 Make.inc
>     -rw-r--r--   1 skip     skip         739 Sep 23 10:57 Makefile
>     -rw-r--r--   1 skip     skip     5722752 Sep 23 11:52 libatlas.a
>     -rw-r--r--   1 skip     skip      290888 Sep 23 11:37 libcblas.a
>     -rw-r--r--   1 skip     skip      343020 Sep 23 11:54 liblapack.a
>     -rw-r--r--   1 skip     skip      279972 Sep 23 11:04 libtstatlas.a
> 
> Why doesn't scipy_distutils/system_info.py report the presence of any ATLAS
> libraries?

Because $ATLAS does not contain libf77blas.a file.
I don't know why your atlas built did not create that, though.

Pearu