Hello all,
I wrote and maintain a recipe to provide scipy in the OpenEmbedded build
system [1]. I would like to upstream this recipe into meta-python so
that it is more broadly available to those who need it as well as to
reduce my own maintenance burden.
Before sending a patch, however, I'd like to solicit feedback from the
meta-oe community on how best to integrate this recipe into the
meta-openembedded project. If you look at the source for the recipe at
[1] you will see that there are a few steps/hacks that need to be done
in order to get scipy to correctly cross-compile:
1. We have to add a CMake parameter to lapack ("-DCBLAS=ON"). This
causes LAPACK to build the C BLAS library instead of the Fortran BLAS
library. This is necessary as scipy tries to link against `cblas_*`
functions.
2. We have to patch numpy to force it not to include rpaths in the
compiled shared object file. Otherwise the bitbake QA fails as it
detects rpaths from the build system.
3. Two variables must be set in either the local.conf or distro.conf
file to enable Fortran support. These can't be added in the scipy
recipe directly (at least, last time I tried it they couldn't be) so
users have to manually add these themselves.
I am by no means an expert in bitbake or in the broader OE build
environment. If you know of a better solution to any of the problems
outlined above, please share them. I am also more than happy to provide
more detail if anyone has any questions.
Ultimately, the ideal goal is to have a single 'python3_scipy.bb' recipe
file that I can send as a patch for inclusion in the meta-python layer
rather than maintaining an entirely separate meta-scipy layer.
Thanks!
Greg
[1]: https://github.com/gpanders/meta-scipy
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