Someone commented the other day that he could not understand why BLAS was in Sage when we had ATLAS. This was in response to my concern about linbox not being able to find BLAS
http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/9101 Robert Bradshaw did a list of what he considered the most important parts of Sage, and includes BLAS in that. I have just checked and see there is no self-test package for BLAS. So I'm wondering if we need BLAS or not. The BLAS package has a Makefile, but Sage does not use it. Instead it just has ================================= sage_fortran -c -fPIC *.f if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then echo "Error compiling blas." exit 1 fi ar -r libblas.a *.o ranlib libblas.a cp libblas.a "$SAGE_LOCAL"/lib/libblas.a ================================== So all we do is create a static library and do not test it. But even if we use the Makefile, there is no test suite in there either. Dave -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
