Re: lapack and blas
Right! But, if we get some facility for swapping different blas
versions on the fly through the packaging system, this would
facilitate experimentation by the user with this version as well.
Maybe some day we could convince ghenry to release a shared version
too.
Jose Marin <jose@ma.hw.ac.uk> writes:
> On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, Camm Maguire wrote:
>
> > 3) Do 2), and then add the update-alternatives calls into postinst. I
> > could help here if needed. Perhaps the reference implementation,
> > whether in a separate package or part of lapack, could be
> > libblas_ref, and the atlas one libblas_atlas, with appropriate
> > links set to libblas. Since these libs are binary compatible, the
> > soname of all libs should be libblas.so.x.
>
> Don't forget about the third set of BLAS, the "ASCI Red Pentium Pro BLAS
> 1.1O" (http://www.cs.utk.edu/~ghenry/distrib/). Alas, these are very
> non-free, they don't even allow re-distribution.
>
> Jose
>
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Take care,
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