> Trying to build Sage 4.3.2 on Solaris 10 (SPARC), as a 64-bit build (my > first semi-serious attempt at 64-bit SPARC build), I get a failure: > > checking for C interface to BLAS... not found > checking for others BLAS... not found > > > ************************************************************************** > ***** ERROR: BLAS not found! > > BLAS routines are required for this library to compile. Please > make sure BLAS are installed and specify its location with the option > --with-blas=<lib> when running configure. > > ************************************************************************** > ***** Error configuring linbox > > real 0m32.070s > user 0m15.156s > sys 0m12.915s > sage: An error occurred while installing linbox-1.1.6.p3 > > http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/9101 > > Looking in spkg/standard/deps, I don't see anything to force BLAS to build > before linbox. > > > $(INST)/$(LINBOX): $(BASE) $(INST)/$(MPIR) $(INST)/$(NTL) $(INST)/$(GIVARO) > $(INST)/$(GSL) $(INST)/$(ATLAS) > $(SAGE_SPKG) $(LINBOX) 2>&1 > > It's strange I've never come across this before on a 32-bit build on the > same machine, yet the BLAS libraries are not installed as far as I'm > aware. > > drkir...@redstart:~$ ls /usr/lib/*blas* /lib/*blas* > /usr/lib/*blas*: No such file or directory > /lib/*blas*: No such file or directory > > I've never had this problem building on 32-bit SPARC, or 64-bit OpenSolaris > x64. I only see it on 64-bit Solaris 10 SPARC. Perhaps the behavior is > undefined if the dependency is missing, and it just happens by luck to > work on the other systems. Either that, or I've mis-understood it. > ATLAS is a blas implementation and linbox prefer that one - along with the clapack shipped with it. So if atlas is installed you should have libcblas and linbox definitely should detect it.
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