[SciPy-user] Finding determinant

[Ryan Krauss]

Is it possible that the Numpy and Scipy windows executables are linked
to different LAPACK libraries?

On 5/18/07, Ryan Krauss <ryanlists at gmail.com> wrote:
> This has me fairly concerned.  I am about to require Python for a
> class I am teaching this summer that starts on Tuesday (5/22).  I
> can't live with Scipy without LAPACK.  But I can't tell my students
> they can't use AMD processors.  What would it take to build a scipy
> executable for AMD (non sse2?)?  Do executables for LAPACK and ATLAS
> exist for windows so that I just have to build Scipy itself from
> source on Windows?  I have never done that before.  I assume it has to
> be done on a computer with an older AMD processor.  Can it be done
> with mingw or do I need a computer with an AMD processor and
> VisualStudio or whatever the right Microsoft compiler is?  Can anyone
> else out there easily build this executable for me?  Is there another
> solution?  Most of my students will be reluctant Python converts, so I
> need to make this as easy and painless for them as possible if it is
> going to work.
>
> Oh, and I am leaving for the weekend and may not be able to respond
> until late Sunday.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ryan
>
> On 5/18/07, Ryan Krauss <ryanlists at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I just installed
> > http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/numpy/numpy-1.0.2.win32-py2.5.exe?download
> > and
> > http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/scipy/scipy-0.5.2.win32-py2.5.exe?download
> > on a fresh install.  Are we saying that they link to different LAPACK libraries?
> >
> > Ryan
> >
> > On 5/18/07, Robert Kern <robert.kern at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Ryan Krauss wrote:
> > >
> > > > So what does scipy.linalg.det do differently from numpy.linalg.det?
> > >
> > > Most likely your scipy.linalg is linked to a different LAPACK library than your
> > > numpy.linalg.
> > >
> > > --
> > > 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
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