Mick: ... > I don't have these packages on my systems to check, but does 'eselect lapack > list' reveal anything amiss? ...
$ eselect lapack list Available LAPACK (lib) candidates: (none found) Available LAPACK (lib64) candidates: (none found) $ eselect blas list Available BLAS/CBLAS (lib) candidates: (none found) Available BLAS/CBLAS (lib64) candidates: (none found) and after rebuilding lapack with eselect-ldso $ eselect lapack list Available LAPACK (lib) candidates: (none found) Available LAPACK (lib64) candidates: [1] reference * $ eselect blas list Available BLAS/CBLAS (lib) candidates: (none found) Available BLAS/CBLAS (lib64) candidates: [1] reference * still same problem. recompiling octave, same problem. recompiling octave with static-libs, same problem. Regards, /Karl Hammar
