Re: Note for packages linking against GSL [ACTION NEEDED]

2015-02-24 Thread Jerry James
On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 10:46 PM, Orcan Ogetbil oget.fed...@gmail.com wrote: Can you elaborate on this? gsl has plenty of other routines that have nothing to do with linear algebra. Is there a technical reason why you have to link to a BLAS if the code using gsl does not actually need a BLAS?

Re: Note for packages linking against GSL [ACTION NEEDED]

2015-02-24 Thread Orcan Ogetbil
On 24 February 2015 at 10:25, Jerry James loganje...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 10:46 PM, Orcan Ogetbil oget.fed...@gmail.com wrote: Can you elaborate on this? gsl has plenty of other routines that have nothing to do with linear algebra. Is there a technical reason why you have

Re: Note for packages linking against GSL [ACTION NEEDED]

2015-02-24 Thread Susi Lehtola
On 02/23/2015 09:46 PM, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: On 21 February 2015 at 18:50, Susi Lehtola wrote: Because libgsl is no longer linked to a CBLAS library, packages linking to GSL need to also link to a CBLAS library, ATLAS probably being the best candidate since OpenBLAS is not available for all

Re: Note for packages linking against GSL [ACTION NEEDED]

2015-02-24 Thread Susi Lehtola
On 02/24/2015 07:25 AM, Jerry James wrote: On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 10:46 PM, Orcan Ogetbil oget.fed...@gmail.com wrote: Can you elaborate on this? gsl has plenty of other routines that have nothing to do with linear algebra. Is there a technical reason why you have to link to a BLAS if the code

Re: Note for packages linking against GSL [ACTION NEEDED]

2015-02-23 Thread Orcan Ogetbil
On 21 February 2015 at 18:50, Susi Lehtola wrote: Because libgsl is no longer linked to a CBLAS library, packages linking to GSL need to also link to a CBLAS library, ATLAS probably being the best candidate since OpenBLAS is not available for all Fedora architectures. Can you elaborate on

Re: Note for packages linking against GSL [ACTION NEEDED]

2015-02-23 Thread Susi Lehtola
On 02/22/2015 02:09 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 03:50:16PM -0800, Susi Lehtola wrote: Because libgsl is no longer linked to a CBLAS library, packages linking to GSL need to also link to a CBLAS library, ATLAS probably being the best candidate since OpenBLAS is not

Re: Note for packages linking against GSL [ACTION NEEDED]

2015-02-22 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 03:50:16PM -0800, Susi Lehtola wrote: Hi, the GNU Scientific Library (GSL) contains some linear algebra routines that need a CBLAS library to work. GSL contains a compatibility CBLAS library (gslcblas) that provides a version of these routines. In 2010, we started

Note for packages linking against GSL [ACTION NEEDED]

2015-02-21 Thread Susi Lehtola
Hi, the GNU Scientific Library (GSL) contains some linear algebra routines that need a CBLAS library to work. GSL contains a compatibility CBLAS library (gslcblas) that provides a version of these routines. In 2010, we started to link libgsl by a Fedora patch to libgslcblas, so linking to