From ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de  Wed May  5 17:14:26 2010
From: ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de (Uwe Ligges)
Date: Wed, 05 May 2010 17:14:26 +0200
Subject: [Rd] R 2.11.0 on RHEL5
In-Reply-To: <20100505105422.9LWAG.5708207.root@mp18>
References: <20100505105422.9LWAG.5708207.root@mp18>
Message-ID: <4BE18B52.5000606@statistik.tu-dortmund.de>



On 05.05.2010 16:54, Chuck White wrote:
> Thanks again for your note.  I am now compiling using:
>
> --with-readline=yes --enable-R-shlib=yes --with-x=yes --with-blas="-llibptf77blas -lpthread -llibatlas" --prefix=/usr/local/R-2.11.0

Yes, that's essentially what I use (except the shlib flags).

Uwe


> The above configuration is creating libRlapack.so as well. Do you specify --with-lapack as well? If so, what do you set that to? Section A.3.2 states -- "Please do bear in mind that using --with-lapack is `definitely not recommended': it is provided only because it is necessary on some platforms."
>
> Thanks.
>
> ---- Uwe Ligges<ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de>  wrote:
>>
>> Why do you want shlib support, do you really need it?
>> For the static case, A.3.1.1 ATLAS described the way to go.
>>
>> I have never before linked dynamically to ATLAS versions. ATL_dgemm is
>> probably defined in one of the other libraries. I have not looked since
>> I currently do not have any ATLAS left on my machines which I was more
>> used to roughly 3 years ago.
>>
>> Uwe Ligges
>



[Rd] R 2.11.0 on RHEL5
Uwe Ligges