I'm trying to install numeric on my MacOS X box using Darwin, with the eventual goal of satisfying all of PyGame's dependencies so I can finally start working on my semester project. I would be using MacPython, except that I can't seem to get its Package Manager to work. Anyway, when I try to install numeric, I get the following error:
[HMC-58-125:~/proj/Numeric-23.7] chriswei% sudo ./setup.py install
Password:
running install
running build
running build_py
running build_ext
building 'lapack_lite' extension
gcc -Wl,-F. -Wl,-F. -bundle -framework Python build/temp.darwin-7.6.0-
Power_Macintosh-2.3/Src/lapack_litemodule.o build/temp.darwin-7.6.0-
Power_Macintosh-2.3/Src/blas_lite.o build/temp.darwin-7.6.0-Power_
Macintosh-2.3/Src/f2c_lite.o build/temp.darwin-7.6.0-Power_Macintosh-2.3/
Src/zlapack_lite.o build/temp.darwin-7.6.0-Power_Macintosh-2.3/Src/
dlapack_lite.o -L/usr/lib/atlas -llapack -lcblas -lf77blas -latlas -lg2c -
o build/lib.darwin-7.6.0-Power_Macintosh-2.3/lapack_lite.so -framework vecLib
ld: can't locate file for: -llapack
error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1
Previously it had been complaining about a missing directory '/usr/lib/
atlas', but I just created that (without any idea what it wanted it for or why it couldn't create it itself, natch).
You can delete it. That is the directory specified by default to look for the ATLAS libraries which are a portable optimized LAPACK and BLAS. You don't need it on the Mac because you have vecLib, which is an Apple-provided version of ATLAS, pre-installed.
From what I've found online, it's now having problems because a linear algebra module it needs (
lapack) can't be found. However, isn't numeric supposed to have its own "light" linear algebra code?
Yes, however, the ATLAS or vecLib libraries will be much, much faster.
Looking in setup.py, I found the following section:
# delete all but the first one in this list if using your own LAPACK/ BLAS sourcelist = [os.path.join('Src', 'lapack_litemodule.c'), # os.path.join('Src', 'blas_lite.c'), # os.path.join('Src', 'f2c_lite.c'), # os.path.join('Src', 'zlapack_lite.c'), # os.path.join('Src', 'dlapack_lite.c') ] ]
I tried uncommenting the lines, but no dice.
Also modify the library_dirs_list and libraries_list variables, but keep these *_lite.c files commented out.
library_dirs_list = [] libraries_list = []
That way, Numeric will just pick up vecLib.
This is fixed in CVS.
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