[SciPy-user] How do I build scipy using standard BLAS/LAPACK

[Pearu Peterson]

On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, Nils Wagner wrote:

> I have also set the additional environment variables BLAS=None LAPACK=None
>
> scipy_core/scipy_distutils/system_info.py:978: UserWarning:
>   Lapack (http://www.netlib.org/lapack/) sources not found.
>   Directories to search for the sources can be specified in the
>   scipy_distutils/site.cfg file (section [lapack_src]) or by setting
>   the LAPACK_SRC environment variable.
> warnings.warn(LapackSrcNotFoundError.__doc__)
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "setup.py", line 112, in ?
>   setup_package(ignore_packages)
> File "setup.py", line 86, in setup_package
>   ignore_packages = ignore_packages)
> File "scipy_core/scipy_distutils/misc_util.py", line 475, in get_subpackages
>   config = setup_module.configuration(*args)
> File "/var/tmp/cvs/scipy/Lib/lib/setup_lib.py", line 14, in configuration
>   parent_path=parent_path)
> File "scipy_core/scipy_distutils/misc_util.py", line 475, in get_subpackages
>   config = setup_module.configuration(*args)
> File "Lib/lib/lapack/setup_lapack.py", line 40, in configuration
>   lapack_opt = get_info('lapack_opt',notfound_action=2)
> File "scipy_core/scipy_distutils/system_info.py", line 192, in get_info
>   return cl().get_info(notfound_action)
> File "scipy_core/scipy_distutils/system_info.py", line 340, in get_info
>   raise self.notfounderror,self.notfounderror.__doc__
> scipy_distutils.system_info.NotFoundError: Some third-party program or 
> library is not found.
>
> but
>
> lisa:/var/tmp/cvs/scipy # echo $LAPACK_SRC
> /home/nwagner/src/lapack

Do you have anything in /home/nwagner/src/lapack? May be you should have

   LAPACK_SRC=/home/nwagner/src/LAPACK

? If so then it should solve the problem. You should not follow docs 
literately when it is obvious that docs are wrong.

Pearu