On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 4:23 AM, Dan Yamins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 3) Finally: (and this is slightly off topic) -- I've just installed SciPy > for the first time. In the readme.txt for the download it mentioned > something about having LAPACK and ATLAS installed. However, on the scipy > install page (for OSX, http://www.scipy.org/Installing_SciPy/Mac_OS_X), it > doesn't mention anything about LAPACK and ATLAS -- and the instructions > there that I followed worked without any need for those packages. Do I > need them? Or are they only necessary for making certain routines faster?
On OS X it is usual to use the optimised BLAS provided by the Accelerate framework (at least that's what it used to be called I think). In any case - you don't need them because Apple provides an optimised blas (which is used as an alternative to lapack and atlas)... You could use lapack/atlas if you wanted but installation is probably simpler following the instructions on the wiki to use the apple one... Robin _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
