Re: RFC: building numpy against OpenBLAS.

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Ricardo Wurmus writes:

> python-numpy currently depends on Atlas, which means that it cannot be
> substituted with a binary built elsewhere.  OpenBLAS is an alternative
> to Atlas and the binary can be used on all supported CPUs at runtime.
> This makes it possible for us to make numpy substitutable.
>
> We currently do not have a working OpenBLAS on MIPS, so the attached
> patch selects OpenBLAS as an input only when not on MIPS.  Some
> additional configuration happens only unless "atlas" is among the
> inputs.

If there are no objections I'd like to go ahead and push this patch to
build numpy with OpenBLAS.  From the comments I gather that it's not as
controversial a change as I suspected.

~~ Ricardo