On Feb 4, 12:25 pm, Francois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It doesn't use the new mechanism for using system atlas.
> After thinking long and hard about it, I initially decided to
> use it only to back off once I understood the mechanism.
> So here is what I think is wrong with it:
> It check for libf77blas and not libblas. Atlas provides libblas
> and in gentoo it doesn't provide libf77blas and I think in sage
> it is provided by blas and not atlas (I may be wrong, I don't
> have an install.log handy for checking). Furthermore from my
> experience and tests libf77blas is only needed in cvxopt and
> only because it is explicitly required in spkg-install. It builds
> fine with libblas as do the other components requiring blas.
>
Answering myself after finding an install.log. It seems by default
sage builds libf77blas with atlas and libblas with blas. That
explains a few things. Anyway sage builds perfectly well with
libblas.
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