On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 10:35 PM, Sturla Molden <sturla.mol...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ralf Gommers <ralf.gomm...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> No. Numpy uses those libs when they're detected, but it falls back on its >> own dot implementation if they're not found. From first bullet under >> <a >> href="http://scipy.org/scipylib/building/linux.html#generic-instructions:";>http://scipy.org/scipylib/building/linux.html#generic-instructions:</a> >> "BLAS >> and LAPACK libraries (optional but strongly recommended for NumPy, required >> for SciPy)". >> >> BLAS/LAPACK are heavy dependencies that often give problems, which is why >> you don't want to require them for the casual user that only needs numpy >> arrays to make some plots for examples. > > Maybe we are not talking about the same thing, but isn't blas_lite.c and > lapack_lite.c more or less f2c'd versions of reference BLAS and reference > LAPACK?
Not all of them, no. Just the routines that numpy itself uses. Hence, "lite". -- Robert Kern _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
