[Rd] Building R-devel with ACML

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Wed, 14 Dec 2005, Roger Peng wrote:

> I'm trying to build R-devel with AMD's ACML.  I downloaded version 3.0.0
> 64bit for gfortran (acml-3-0-0-gfortran-64bit.tgz) and copied the
> libraries to /usr/local/lib.  When I configure R to build against the
> ACML library, how do I know if the library has been detected and will be
> used?

Look at the end of the output (will say BLAS(generic)) and at BLAS_LIBS in 
Makeconf.

> I run 'configure' with the '--with-blas=-lacml' flag and am using gcc
> 4.0.2 (with gfortran) on FC4.

On my such system with --with-lapack I got

   External libraries:        readline, BLAS(generic), LAPACK(in blas)

BLAS_LIBS = -L/usr/local/acml/gnu64/lib -lacml

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