[R] BLAS or ATLAS?

Liaw, Andy andy_liaw at merck.com
Wed Feb 23 21:17:03 CET 2005


Look for `sgemm' in config.log.  I believe that's how configure test for
usable BLAS.

It looks like configure found another system installed BLAS.

Andy

> From: Tom Colson
> 
> In makeconf I get
> BLAS_LIBS = -lblas
> 
> I believe that actually means configure was able to use the BLAS you
> specified (MKL in this case).  You can scan through config.log to make
> sure.
> in config.log....can't seem to find any reference to the Intel BLAS.
> 
> Thanks for all the replies. 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 13:45 -0600, Douglas Bates wrote:
> > Tom Colson wrote:
> > > Fedora Core 3
> > > 
> > > I installed the Intel MLk, 
> > > 
> > > and tried : --with-blas="-lmkl -lguide -lpthread" 
> > > 
> > > and got :  External libraries:        readline, BLAS(generic)
> > > 
> > > thus I'm assuming I'm missing something when telling 
> config where to
> > > look for the recently installed Intel BLAS?
> > 
> > That's what you would expect to see in the summary section from 
> > configure.  Look back in the configure output to see 
> exactly what it 
> > reported for the blas.  You may also check the Makeconf 
> file that was 
> > generated to see what it defines for BLAS_LIBS
> >
> 
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