Hello Adam, 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 didn't know that. That
> 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. Are you sure ? That API is supposed to be the BLAS one. > Are they no longer ABI-compatible? Is it possible to get back to the > old state of things? As far as I know, they are probably compatible but we would have to dig deeper to make sure of that. I would be happy to put this behavior back, especially since this would fix the first point described here: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-scicomp-devel/2009-October/004582.html Sylvestre -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
