[Rd] compiling 2.7.0 GNU/Linux | BLAS & Lapack query

[Prof Brian Ripley]

You need to look in config.log to see what happened.

But note what 'R Installation and Administration' says about

   See @pxref{Shared BLAS} for an alternative (and in many ways preferable)
   way to use ACML.


On Fri, 13 Jun 2008, evan cooch wrote:

> Greetings -
>
> For a host of reasons I chose (was forced) to upgrade my multi-Opteron box
> from Fedora 7 -> Fedora 8. In the process, I also updated the ACML I had
> installed from 4.0.0 to 4.1.0.
>
> While I get no errors (that I can find) in the config -> make -> make
> install sequence, I'm pretty sure (based on some benchmarks) that I'm not
> getting BLAS and/or Lapack to compile in. So, either something has changed
> from 2.6.2 -> 2.7.0, or something has changed from Fedora 7 -> Fedora 8, or
> both.
>
> Here is the sequence I follow to do the config (which seemed to work
> perfectly before - note: using bash shell):
>
> 1. LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/acml4.1.0/gfortran64/lib
>
> 2. export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
>
> 3. ./configure --with-lapack="-L/usr/lib64"
> --with-blas="L/opt/acml4.1.0/gfortran64/lib -lacml"
>
>
> However, when I try this, at the end of the config script I'm told
>
> Interfaces supported:      X11
> External libraries:           readline
> Additional capabilites:   PNG, JPEG, iconv, MBCS, NLS, cairo
> Options enabled:           shared BLAS, R profiling, Java
>
>
> I'm pretty sure that readline being the only external library being reported
> is diagnostic of some sort of issue - normally, I'm given information about
> lapack, and generic BLAS being linked. But, no more.
>
> Suggestions? Points to the obvious? Both ACML and Lapack are where they
> should be, so I'm quite frankly puzzled as to what is going on.
>
>
> Thanks very much in advance.
>
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