Re: [Pysparse-users] Trouble finding the correct ATLAS LAPACK libraries with pysparse 1.2a1

[Daniel W. <dan...@gm...>]

Perhaps.It shouldn't matter, but you can just simply remove the
pysparse directory in site-packages, wherever it is. Can't hurt.

On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Eddie Schwalbach
<e-s...@no...> wrote:
> Hi guys, thanks for the response.  Our machine went down for maintenance
> this morning, as soon as its back up I'll send the requested outputs.
>
> I haven't tested the ATLAS or LAPACK libraries, but I have been able to
> compile other software against them (specifically Trilinos 9.0.3 including
> the PyTrilinos module).  Not sure if it matters, but there are other
> versions of ATLAS (3.9.16 and 3.9.24) at /software/ATLAS/#.#.##  where #'s
> are the version numbers.  These newer versions don't have full LAPACK
> support or shared versions of the libraries.
>
> To answer your question Daniel, there was no previous install of PySparse
> for the Python in my home directory, but I believe on the first attempt at
> installing I used the default setup.py, perhaps this left something around
> that's interfering with more recent attempts to install?  I did run
>
> python setup.py clean
>
> before modifying setup.py and rerunning the build/install steps.  Is there a
> better way of removing/cleaning up before I try installing again?
>
> Thanks again, and more info to follow when I can get access to the machine.
>
> Eddie
>
>
> On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Daniel Wheeler <dan...@gm...>
> wrote:
> Was there a previous pysparse installation?
>
>
> On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 2:01 AM, Dominique Orban <dom...@gm...>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 5:59 PM, Eddie Schwalbach
>> <e-s...@no...> wrote:
>> > I'm trying to install pysparse on a Linux cluster with ATLAS 3.8.3
>> > (which
>> > was built with full LAPACK support).  ATLAS is located at
>> > /software/ATLAS/3.8.3
>> > and I'm using Python2.6.4 which is located in the nonstandard location
>> > /home/ejs698/software (which is at the beginning of my PATH and
>> > PYTHONPATH).
>> >
>> > I've modified the setup.py file to include the appropriate (I think)
>> > library
>> > directories:
>> >
>> > library_dirs_list=
>> >
>> > ['/software/ATLAS/3.8.3/lib/','/home/ejs698/software/lib/','/usr/bin/lib/']
>> > libraries_list = ['f77blas', 'cblas', 'atlas', 'lapack', 'gfortran']
>> >
>> > I also have the environment variables:
>> > LD_LIBRARY_PATH
>> >
>> > /opt/moab/lib:/opt/torque/lib::/software/ATLAS/3.8.3/lib:/home/ejs698/software/lib
>> > ATLAS  /software/ATLAS/3.8.3  (this was necessary for getting numpy
>> > built
>> > against the correct ATLAS libraries)
>> >
>> > I don't see errors when I run python setup.py install, or when I try
>> >      from pysparse import *
>> > However, if I attempt to run any of the tests in the Examples directory,
>> > I
>> > get:
>> >
>> > [ejs698@quser04 Examples]$ python jdsym_test.py
>> > Traceback (most recent call last):
>> >   File "jdsym_test.py", line 1, in <module>
>> >     from pysparse import spmatrix, jdsym, itsolvers
>> > ImportError: /software/ATLAS/lib/liblapack.so: cannot open shared object
>> > file: No such file or directory
>> >
>> > This seems to indicate that pysparse is looking in the wrong place for
>> > the
>> > lapack libraries (the correct location is
>> > /software/ATLAS/3.8.3/lib/liblapack.so).  Have I missed some environment
>> > variable or setting in the setup.py to properly specify these library
>> > locations?
>> >
>> > Any suggestions are appreciated,  and thanks in advance,
>>
>> Hello Eddie,
>>
>> There are no environment variables to set in Pysparse, so no, you
>> haven't missed any.
>>
>> Could you please post the complete output of 'python setup.py build'
>> as well as the result of 'ls -l
>> /software/ATLAS/3.8.3/lib/liblapack.so'? I don't doubt your word that
>> the library is there but am just trying to get the obvious things out
>> of the way first. Also I presume you can run the ATLAS and LAPACK
>> tests with your libraries?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> --
>> Dominique
>
>



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Daniel Wheeler