[ITP] openblas

[Marco Atzeri]

On 12/7/2014 11:08 AM, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Marco Atzeri writes:
>> As BLAS it is around 5-10 times faster than Netlib reference
>> The only package really relevant for user is libopenblas_dynamic
>>
>> $ cygcheck -l libopenblas_dynamic
>> /usr/bin/cygblas-0.dll
>>
>> the library is before the reference one in the path
>>
>> $ cygcheck -l liblapack0|grep blas
>> /usr/lib/lapack/cygblas-0.dll
>> and used instead of.
>
> Could this be done with alternatives instead and could we get rid of
> /usr/lib/lapack and the need to have it in $PATH in the process, please?

unfortunately alternatives is not effective with dll's.
Windows ignores cygwin links.
My predecessor that was playing with ATLAS had the same issue
and used "/usr/lib/lapack" and PATH to solve the problem of multiple
alternative dll's with the same name.

> Regards,
> Achim.

Marco