On 2012-12-21 14:48, Julien Puydt wrote:
> Le 21/12/2012 14:14, Volker Braun a écrit :
>> Setting SAGE_ATLAS_LIB creates a symlink to the underlying atlas
>> install. Don't use it if you want to distribute the result.
> 
>> Having said that, I'm thinking about a more flexible system for
>> deploying and using blas/lapack. I'll probably post to sage-devel about
>> that soon.
> 
> "apt-get install" is all it takes... and it comes with explanations how
> to recompile the package for maximum performance.
> 
> What I find especially stupid is that building atlas takes most of the
> time, when I really know:
> (1) I'm not needing a perfectly optimized library to the point that
> compiling for days makes sense ;
> (2) I'm going to make a bdist which people will run on different systems
> where those optimizations are perhaps worse than what a more generic
> package would have given!
> 
> Something like "export SAGE_ATLAS_DONT_OVERDO_IT=yes" would be wonderful.
I think even more stupid is that ATLAS fails to build if it cannot
perfectly tune itself.

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