From help-request at octave dot org Fri Feb  4 11:08:19 2005
Subject: ./configure fails to detect atlas (blas) lib on Solaris
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Fredrik Lingvall <fl at ifi dot uio dot no>
Cc: help at octave dot org
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 11:12:38 -0600

On  4-Feb-2005, Fredrik Lingvall <fl at ifi dot uio dot no> wrote:

| The octave configure script fails to detect the ATLAS blas lib on a 64 
| bit Solaris machine.
| The scripts reports:
| ...
| 
| checking for sgemm_ in 
| /ifi/einmyria/p02/fl/sun64/usr/local/lib/atlas.so... no
| checking for sgemm_... no
| checking for ATL_xerbla in -latlas... no
| checking for sgemm_ in -framework vecLib... no
| checking for sgemm_ in -lblas... no
| checking for sgemm_ in -lcxml... no
| checking for sgemm_ in -ldxml... no
| checking for sgemm_ in -lscs... no
| checking for sgemm_ in -lcomplib.sgimath... no
| checking for sgemm_ in -lblas... (cached) no
| checking for sgemm_ in -lblas... (cached) no
| checking for cheev_ in 
| /ifi/einmyria/p02/fl/sun64/usr/local/lib/liblapack_SOLARIS_64.so... noblas
| ...
| 
| eventhough
| 
| nm /ifi/einmyria/p02/fl/sun64/usr/local/lib/atlas.so | grep sgemm_
| 
| gives
| 
| 00743bc4 T atl_f77wrap_sgemm_
| 007429a0 T sgemm_
| 
| so the symbol is in the lib. Likewise,
| 
| nm /ifi/einmyria/p02/fl/sun64/usr/local/lib/liblapack_SOLARIS_64.so | 
| grep cheev_
| 
| gives
| 
| 00090ff0 T cheev_
| 
| Anyone got an idea why ./configure fails?

No, but you can look in config.log to find more details.  If that
doesn't help you, then post the details here and someone might be able
to suggest a solution.

jwe



-------------------------------------------------------------
Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL.

Octave's home on the web:  http://www.octave.org
How to fund new projects:  http://www.octave.org/funding.html
Subscription information:  http://www.octave.org/archive.html
-------------------------------------------------------------