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From: "François Bissey" <f.r.bissey@×××××××××.nz>
To: gentoo-science@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-science] R and Blas
Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 18:26:42
Message-Id: 201005270626.05124.f.r.bissey@massey.ac.nz
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-science] R and Blas by Juan Aguado
1 > > Hi all,
2 > >
3 > > I noticed that R currently has a useflag for lapack but
4 > > not for blas - which is also a configure option.
5 > > Is there any reason for that?
6 > >
7 > > Just as a background I am looking at bumping vtk to
8 > > version 5.6.0 and it can use R. But if you do, it wants
9 > > R to be built with both blas and lapack support.
10 > >
11 > > Francois
12 >
13 > R hard-depends on blas (see the ebuild). Lapack depends on blas anyway.
14 >
15 I know that.
16 My point is currently R/modules/lapack.so is built but not R/modules/blas.so
17 at least it's not on my system.
18
19 Francois