[R] shared ATLAS library?

[Roger Peng]

> try). I've compiled atlas as a static (.a) library and successfully
> built R (although, when it is static, I don't know how to tell for
> sure that it is being used). However, their seems to be little

I think you can use nm on the R.bin file -- if you compiled with static
ATLAS there should a bunch of ATL_* symbols.

-roger
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On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, Paul Gilbert wrote:

> >From "R Installation and Administration:"
> 
>    Note that the BLAS library will be used for several add-on packages as 
>    well as for R itself. This means that it is better to use a
>    shared BLAS library, as most of a static library will be compiled 
>    into the R executable and each BLAS-using package. 
> 
> Is there an idiots guide on how to do this (or should idiots just not
> indication of how to make a shared (.so) ATLAS library. I've had even
> less success with blas from netlib. (I compiled .so files and
> generated a file libblas.so, but there are a lot of unresolved
> symbols, so R crashes.)
> 
> Any help would be appreciated. (Linux or Solaris).
> 
> Thanks,
> Paul Gilbert
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