Package: src:openblas Severity: wishlist
-- Dear maintainers, at the moment there is only one flavor of openblas library package. Fedora/RedHat provide several other flavors that are compiled differently : RHEL 7.3 : $ rpm -qa | grep -i openblas openblas-threads-0.2.19-4.el7.ppc64le openblas-serial64-0.2.19-4.el7.ppc64le openblas-threads64_-0.2.19-4.el7.ppc64le openblas-openmp64-0.2.19-4.el7.ppc64le openblas-openmp64_-0.2.19-4.el7.ppc64le openblas-devel-0.2.19-4.el7.ppc64le openblas-threads64-0.2.19-4.el7.ppc64le openblas-openmp-0.2.19-4.el7.ppc64le openblas-0.2.19-4.el7.ppc64le openblas-serial64_-0.2.19-4.el7.ppc64le Fedora : https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=970656 Spec file : https://src.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/openblas.git/tree/openblas.spec It would be nice if the functionality available across the distros were closer for users. Especially, in HPC, the greatest need is for (i) reentrant serial version; (ii) OpenMP version. There is also need for 32-bit and 64-bit integer arguments. I saw in the d/changelog that there used to be OpenMP support ; it caused some FTBFS later on but that was in the same libopenblas-base. In your opinion, would it make sense to follow that path and have several binary packages providing different features ? Also, this way if some feature doesn't work for some architecture, those could be disabled on those, but other architectures would still benefit from the feature. Regards, F.
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