[SciPy-user] Confusing BLAS/LAPACK situation on Mac OS X

[Brian Granger]

On Jan 28, 2006, at 1:06 PM, Robert Kern wrote:

Brian Granger wrote:
Thus, It looks like the Apple supplied cblas and clapack libraries are never used, even though they are found at build time.  What is the current status of using Apple's cblas and clapack?  Can I use them from within scipy/numpy?  How?

AFAICT, Accelerate.framework does not include CLAPACK versions of their LAPACK
functions, although they do include CBLAS versions of their BLAS functions. I've
never looked into how scipy determines the existince of the CBLAS routines
because I've always used ATLAS since Accelerate.framework does not contain the
CLAPACK versions.


What about:

/System/Library/Frameworks/Accelerate.framework/Frameworks/vecLib.framework/

Versions/Current/libLAPACK.dylib

and

Headers/clapack.h


Also, Apple's docs on Accelerate claim that they include clapack.

Are these incomplete/unusable for some reason?  It seems silly to build ATLAS if it is already there.







However, it looks like the culprit is line 82 in scipy/Lib/linalg/setup.py.

...
82        if name[0]=='c' and atlas_version is None and newer(__file__,target):
              f = open(target,'w')
              f.write('python module '+name+'\n')
              f.write('usercode void empty_module(void) {}\n')
...

I don't think atlas_version gets set when the ATLAS is Accelerate.framework.


Maybe I will play around with this, but I am not very familiar with how libalg is setup, so I don't know if I will get anywhere.



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Robert Kern
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