Re: [Visualpython-users] numarray? Numpy? Slackware 10?

[Jonathan B. <jbr...@ea...>]

On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 23:16 -0800, Eric Ayars wrote:
> Anyone here successfully install VPython on Slackware 10? So far I'm  
> stuck at installing Numeric (23.7), which gives me an error about  
> "cannot find -llapack" at the "python setup.py install" step.

First off, are you sure that there isn't a prebuilt binary package of
Numeric in Slackware?  If you are sure that you need to install Numeric
from source, install lapack (in Debian, it is called lapack-dev), or
edit setup.py to use its own simple blas/lapack subroutines.

> I can install numarray fine, but visual-3.0.3/configure still wants  
> numeric... Is it possible to run vpython with numarray instead of  
> numeric? If so, how do I go about changing the configure file? Would  
> more changes be required? (probably!)

If you really want to build with just Numarray, you can do this with
version 3.1.0 of Visual, which was the first release to support
Numarray.  It can be found from the Sourceforge download page.

> Or should I keep trying to get numeric installed? Any suggestions?  
> Here's where the numeric install fails:

Other people have reported this issue to the Numeric developers, who
should have this issue fixed in the next release.  You should probably
file a bug report with them anyway, just as a reminder that this still
needs fixing.

-Jonathan Brandmeyer