linking to ATLAS threaded ptcblas and ptf77blas libraries

[E. Joshua Rigler]

I installed ATLAS libraries and headers in the non-standard directories
(no root access):

  /home/username/local/lib
  /home/username/local/include

I then use the following configure invocation:

>> LDFLAGS="-L/home/username/local/lib" 
>> CPPFLAGS="-L/home/username/local/include ./configure --other-options

I'm mostly certain thatall the proper libraries are being found, since
rather than just "-llapack -lblas", I get the following once configure
is finished:

  BLAS libraries:       -llapack -lcblas -lf77blas -latlas

What I *really* want is to link to the posix threaded versions of the
ATLAS libraries (i.e., libptcblas.a and libptf77blas.a).  Is it even
possible or desirable to link to multi-threaded libraries with Octave,
and if so, are there special compiler flags I should be aware of (I run
on a 2-CPU amd64 RHEL-3 linux machine)?

For what it's worth, I tried simply changing the names of my
libptcblas.a and libptf77blas.a libraries to libcblas.a and
libf77blas.a, respectively.  Octave's configure script apparently didn't
like these though, and simply reverted to my system's default
/usr/lib64/libblas.a.

Thanks for any help.

-EJR



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