RE: help with compiling octave-3.3.51

[Charles Yee]

I compiled the latest version of lapack and blas - lapack-3.2.2 and blas-3.2.2, and recompiled octave-3.3.51.
I still get the same segmentation fault at start up of octave.

-charles


> Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 07:17:27 +0200
> Subject: Re: help with compiling octave-3.3.51
> From: address@hidden
> To: address@hidden
> CC: address@hidden; address@hidden
>
> On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 3:43 AM, Charles Yee <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > I am using lapack-3.0-37.el5.x86_64 and blas-3.0-37.el5.x86_64 for CentOS
> > 5.4.
> >
> > I can run octave-3.2.4 because I had compiled it with --without-blas and
> > --without-lapack options.
> >
> > Unfortunately, there seems to be no way of disabling blas and lapack in
> > compiling octave-3.3.51.
> >
>
> No, there is no way, because Octave no longer comes with BLAS/LAPACK
> sources included (that caused numerous problems in development). I
> suggest you compile BLAS and LAPACK yourself, if your system libs
> appear to be buggy. Btw., a system package called merely "blas" is
> most likely the unoptimized reference BLAS, so anything from ATLAS to
> several non-free BLASes will give you a much better performance.
>
> --
> RNDr. Jaroslav Hajek, PhD
> computing expert & GNU Octave developer
> Aeronautical Research and Test Institute (VZLU)
> Prague, Czech Republic
> url: www.highegg.matfyz.cz

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