[lsst-dm-stack-users] adding scipy to DMstack installation

[Heather Kelly]

On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 12:43 AM, Mario Juric <mjuric at lsst.org> wrote:

> On 4/2/13 13:33 , Heather Kelly wrote:
> >
> > I'm now trying to do a similar thing for our RHEL5-64 installation which
> > was from the binaries you guys provided back in December...initially
> > doing the eups distrib install --nolocks scipy failed, since it couldn't
> > find blas or lapack - I did manage to point at our local installation of
> > those.  Now it's failing since the link path is likely using the
> > location of the python used when the binaries were created.  Is there a
> > sensible way to add scipy in this case?  We don't have gcc44 for
> > RHEL5-64 here so the binary installation seemed the best bet in this
> case.
> >
>
> Heather,
>         I think you'll need gcc44 RPM to get this built right. You may also
> need to have the stack in /opt/lsst/rhel-5-x86_64.
>
>         However, I built scipy for RHEL5 and added it to our binary
> distribution server. Install blas and lapack RHEL5 RPMs, and then update
> your stack with:
>
>         setup lsst_distrib_tool
>         lsst-distrib update
>
> and you should have scipy.
>
> *** WARNING ****: the update process will remove all customizations
> (e.g., additional packages that you may have installed manually). The
> only way to avoid this right now is to hack the lsst-distrib binary and
> remove '--delete' switch from the rsync call. I'd recommended to build
> site-specific packages in a different directory (I can send more info on
> how to do this if needed).
>
> PS: Whatever you do, just to be safe, back up the stack directory before
> running the update :).
>
> If this works well, I'll build scipy binaries for other platforms.
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Mario Juric,
>

Hi Mario,

Yes - that seemed to work just fine!  We didn't have any other
site-specific packages to install, so no troubles there.

Thanks,
Heather
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://listserv.lsstcorp.org/pipermail/dm-users/attachments/20130403/75e25432/attachment.html>