Re: how to make Octave find ATLAS BLAS?

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On Sun, Apr 20, 2003 at 11:28:22AM -0500, Mike Miller wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Apr 2003, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> Thanks.  That is very helpful.  My only remaining problem (possibly) is
> that I don't have any *.so files.  I have only the files listed below, and
[...]
> liblapack.a   : The LAPACK routines provided by ATLAS.  If you want a full
>                 lapack library, the .o in this lib can be archived into the
>                 f77 lapack lib without error.
> libcblas.a    : The ANSI C interface to the BLAS.
> libf77blas.a  : The Fortran77 interface to the BLAS.
> libatlas.a    : The main ATLAS library, providing low-level routines for all
>                 interface libs.
> 
> Your archive may also contain additional libraries, if it has posix thread
> support.  These optional libs are:
> 
> libptcblas.a    : The ANSI C interface to the threaded (SMP) BLAS.
> libptf77blas.a  : The Fortran77 interface to the threaded (SMP) BLAS.

These are all _static_ libraries. You will need to get, or build, dynamic
libraries.  Can't help with Solaris specifics, sorry.

Dirk

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