RE: octave3.4.0 install problem: BLAS and LAPAK required

[Li, Ji (2)]

-----Original Message-----
From: Andy Buckle [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2011 2:43 PM
To: Li, Ji (2)
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: octave3.4.0 install problem: BLAS and LAPAK required

On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 7:15 PM, Li, Ji (2) <address@hidden>
wrote:
> I am trying to install Octave-3.4.0 on SUSE Linux version 10. I have 
> Atlas
> 3.8.3 and Mkl 11.1.0.073 installed, but ./configure still complains 
> "You are required to have BLAS and LAPACK libraries". I tried 
> configure with --with-blas and --with-lapack options, and it doesn't 
> work. What is missing here? Thanks a lot!
>
> I checked mailing list archive, and some suggested using "apt-get", 
> but my machine doesn't have this command.
>
> Thanks,
> -Ji

My openSuSE experience does not go as far back as V10.

The equivalent of the apt stuff is zypper. so to see what blas stuff you
have, you can do

zypper search blas

(this assumes that zypper or yast was used to install blas in the first
place). Are you missing the headers? (packages with headers end with dev
or devel).


--
/* andy buckle */


There is no zypper installed on my machine, so I am trying other ways. 

I tried adding LDFLAGS in the configure, like "./configure
LDFLAGS="-L/app/local/pkgs/atlas/3.8.3/lib
-L/app/local/pkgs/mkl/11.1.0.073/lib/em64t
-L/app/local/pkgs/clapack/3.1.1/lib"
--with-blas=/app/local/pkgs/atlas/3.8.3/lib/libcblas.a
--with-lapack=/app/local/pkgs/atlas/3.8.3/lib/lib", and it passed the
BLAS check (it used to fail here), but didn't pass the LAPACK check. The
output is below:

checking for sgemm_ in /app/local/pkgs/atlas/3.8.3/lib/libcblas.a... no
checking if sgemm_ is being linked in already... no
checking for ATL_xerbla in -latlas... yes
checking for sgemm_ in -lf77blas... yes
checking for cblas_dgemm in -lcblas... yes
checking whether LSAME is called correctly from Fortran... yes
checking whether ISAMAX is called correctly from Fortran... yes
checking whether SDOT is called correctly from Fortran... yes
checking whether DDOT is called correctly from Fortran... yes
checking whether CDOTU is called correctly from Fortran... yes
checking whether ZDOTU is called correctly from Fortran... yes
checking whether the integer size is correct... yes
checking for cheev_ in /app/local/pkgs/atlas/3.8.3/lib/liblapack.a... no
checking for cheev_... no
checking for cheev_ in -llapack... no
checking for cheev_ in -llapack_rs6k... no
configure: error: You are required to have BLAS and LAPACK libraries


Thanks a lot for any suggestions!



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