[SciPy-user] CLAPACK vs. LAPACK?

[Pearu Peterson]

On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, Skip Montanaro wrote:

> 
> I just got this warning:
> 
>     .../scipy/linalg/lapack.py:24: UserWarning: exceptions.ImportError: No \
>     module named clapack
> 
> so I went and grabbed CLAPACK and am in the process of building it.  It
> seems to be creating a lapack_<platform>.a file just like vanilla LAPACK
> does.  I see no mention of it in the SciPy install notes.  Am I barking up
> the wrong tree?  If so, what do I do to get a clapack module in SciPy?

Yes, that's a wrong tree. clapack module is actually a wrapper for atlas
library (hmm, may be we should rename clapack to atlas?). Anyway, how and
where did you install atlas? What is the output of

  python scipy_distutils/system_info.py

?

Pearu