Re: Bring BLAS into pkgsrc, pt. II

[Jason Bacon <outpaddling%yahoo.com@localhost>]

On 2020-01-08 14:49, Dr. Thomas Orgis wrote:
> Am Fri, 3 Jan 2020 21:24:25 +0100
> schrieb "Dr. Thomas Orgis" <thomas.orgis%uni-hamburg.de@localhost>:
>
> > Am Thu, 2 Jan 2020 10:57:58 -0600
> > schrieb Jason Bacon <outpaddling%yahoo.com@localhost>:
> >
> > > OK, let me know when the packages are updated and I'll make it a
> > > priority to test and commit.
> > I pushed an update to LAPACK 3.9.0 now, with change to download from
> > github. Feel free to have a go.
> I also pushed an update to openblas to 0.3.7. I noticed one bit of
> possible trouble: OpenBLAS is at LAPACK 3.8.0 API now. Update to 3.9.0
> is in git repo, but not released. This is where we have to be careful
> not to break things when updated code from netlib (C API wrappers)
> expects functions being present that a BLAS implementation misses.
>
> I am testing if lapacke does like the current situation … seems fine.
> Now cblas … seems OK, too.
>
>
> Alrighty then,
>
> Thomas
OK, thanks.  As we don't have a committed openblas at this time, I don't 
think it's a big concern.  As long as the netlib blas upgrade doesn't 
break anything we should be fine until openblas catches up.

I'll have a look at it probably within the next week.

    JB