Re: BLAS/LAPACK implementations
Le lundi 08 février 2010 à 08:39 -0500, Adam C Powell IV a écrit :
> Hello,
>
> Some time ago, the netlib and ATLAS implementations of BLAS and LAPACK
> were ABI-compatible, and used alternatives symlinks to access their
> different libraries with the same ABI.
>
> I don't know when it happened, but at some point they diverged, and now
> the netlib packages have libblas-3gf.so and liblapackgf-3.so, and ATLAS
> has libblas-3.so and liblapack-3.so.
>
> I know that ATLAS has its own API as well, but it was nice back in the
> day to be able to build to the netlib API, and then swap them back at
> forth at runtime using update-alternatives.
About this subject, I found a nice page on gentoo's website:
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/science/blas-lapack.xml
Does anyone has an objection on trying to moving blas/lapack
implementations on an update-alternatives system?
Sylvestre
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