[yocto] Yocto Project support for Numeric/Scientific Python

[Mike Looijmans]

Just attempting to revive this dead horse again...

Anyone made any proress here?

Since cross-compiling turned out to be really really painful, I tried if 
compiling on the board would be an option. No such luck, apparently the 
Fortran compiler isn't being crosscompiled either.


On 26-01-19 20:01, Philip Balister wrote:
> Sounds like we need a layer for packages that needs fortran enabled and
> collect out work there.
> 
> Philip
> 
> On 01/24/2019 05:31 AM, Mike Looijmans wrote:
>> +1
>>
>> Got lapack to compile, but no such luck with any "blas" package (like
>> openblas). And that's a requirement for octave, which was what I was aiming at.
>>
>> I'll share some recipes, tomorrow or so (today is stuffed with other work).
>>
>>
>> On 23-01-19 22:39, Philip Balister wrote:
>>> I care :)
>>>
>>> On 01/23/2019 04:28 PM, Randy MacLeod wrote:
>>>> On 1/23/19 2:54 PM, Smith, Virgil (US) wrote:
>>>>> Is there a current or relatively recent recipe for SciPy and related
>>>>> libraries?
>>>>
>>>> People have worked on it at least once before but found some problems
>>>> with blas and atlas:
>>>>
>>>> https://lists.yoctoproject.org/pipermail/yocto/2018-March/thread.html#40348
>>>>
>>>> I'd say that there is interest.
>>>> I CCed Peter who started one of the threads
>>>> and BCCed 5 other people who seemed to be interested
>>>> since I didn't want to drag them all into the thread.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Further and more importantly, is having a maintainer for (recipes for)
>>>>> those libraries a priority for the active members of the Project?
>>>>> (i.e. does interest rise above the general welcoming of participants
>>>>> to periodically asking “Hey has anyone put out a call to fill this
>>>>> slot?” if/when the slot is vacant).
>>>>
>>>> It's always nice to have a maintainer but community members sometimes
>>>> keep recipes up to date even if they aren't direct users.
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> BTW: If this is the wrong list for this query, please let me know.
>>>>
>>>> It a reasonable list for general discussion.
>>>> If you get to a point where patches are being submitted,
>>>> it should probably go to another list such as:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Why?  We are trying to gauge community interest before making long
>>>>> term plans.
>>>>>
>>>>> We would like to know if this horse is at all likely to have
>>>>> healthcare before betting on it (without sacrificing other patients to
>>>>> obtain the proper veterinary degree and keep up practice to treat it
>>>>> ourselves).
>>>> heh.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>> ../Randy
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> NOTE:  I see from the RRS emails that Derek Straka is currently
>>>>> maintaining the python-numpy recipe.  THANK YOU!
>>>>>
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