[R-sig-Debian] GotoBLAS2 breaks lapack

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 9 May 2012 at 17:41, Sergei Petrov wrote:
| Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd <at> debian.org> writes:
| 
| > One last follow-up.  Debian's Atlas maintainer has started to work in the
| > OpenGoto packaging.  There will be proper Goto packages now that the license
| > is better, but it may take a while. It took years to get Atlas packaged
| > 'right' so don;t expect anything too soon.  The gotoblas2-helper package is
| > still useful for the 'here and now'.
| 
| Unfortunately it is broken :(
| 
| Link not found at ./getGotoBLAS2 line 83

I recommend using the (already packaged) libopenblas-base / libopenblas-dev
package.  

In casual benchmarking it outperformed the gotoblas2 package it was
originally based on.

Dirk

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