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From: Steven Trogdon <strogdon@×××××.edu>
To: gentoo-science@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-science] blas selection in lapack-reference
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 01:47:56
Message-Id: 20140121194748.78c0f91f.strogdon@d.umn.edu
In Reply to: [gentoo-science] blas selection in lapack-reference by "François Bissey"
1 On Wed, 22 Jan 2014 13:52:57 +1300
2 François Bissey <fbissey@××××××××××××.nz> wrote:
3
4 > We have yet another instance of someone emerging lapack-reference
5 > without
6 > a valid blas configuration in
7 > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=498490
8 > (not their original problem).
9 > I think we should do something about this in lapack-reference and
10 > possibly
11 > other ebuilds.
12 > In pkg_setup, we could run
13 > eselect blas update
14 > to make sure that a valid configuration is active
15 > and display an informational message about the blas provider
16 > used with the output of
17 > eselect blas show
18 >
19 > Who thinks is a good/bad idea?
20 >
21 > Francois
22 >
23
24 For one, I'm in favor of something like this - though I probably don't have
25 much say in the matter. I've been bitten by not eselecting {blas, cblas,
26 lapack} after an upgrade. And I've even posted on this forum the problem.
27
28 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.science/1915
29 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.science/1916
30
31 I resolved things, quite accidently, by re-eselecting the important
32 components which were eselected before the upgrade.
33
34 Steve

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