Hi Michał,
Sorry for the late reply. Just encountered some severe hardware failure.
On 2019-06-13 07:49, Michał Górny wrote:
>>
>> sci-libs/{blas,cblas,lapack,lapacke}::gentoo should be deprecated. They
>> are based on exactly the same source tarball, and maintaining 4 ebuild
>> files for a singl
On Thu, 2019-06-13 at 00:15 -0700, Mo Zhou wrote:
> Hi Gentoo devs,
>
> I redesigned the solution for BLAS/LAPACK runtime switching.
> New solution is based on eselect+ld.so.conf . See following.
>
> > Goal
> >
> >
> > * When a program is linked against libblas.so or liblapack.so
> >
Hi Gentoo devs,
I redesigned the solution for BLAS/LAPACK runtime switching.
New solution is based on eselect+ld.so.conf . See following.
> Goal
>
>
> * When a program is linked against libblas.so or liblapack.so
> provided by any BLAS/LAPACK provider, the eselect-based solution
>
Hi David,
David Seifert writes:
>> > An actual ABI compliance test, e.g. done using abi-compliance-
>> > checker would be more interesting.
>>
>> As said above, the symbols don't need to be 1-1 copy of each other.
>> Any library which is a superset of the reference one will work.
>
> Again, I'm
On Wed, 2019-05-29 at 22:33 +0800, Benda Xu wrote:
> Hi Michał,
>
> Michał Górny writes:
>
> > On Tue, 2019-05-28 at 01:37 -0700, Mo Zhou wrote:
> > > Different BLAS/LAPACK implementations are expected to be
> > > compatible
> > > to each other in both the API and ABI level. They can be used as
Hi Michał,
Michał Górny writes:
> On Tue, 2019-05-28 at 01:37 -0700, Mo Zhou wrote:
>> Different BLAS/LAPACK implementations are expected to be compatible
>> to each other in both the API and ABI level. They can be used as
>> drop-in replacement to the others. This sounds nice, but the differenc
Dear David,
David Seifert writes:
> We already have such a solution in the sci-overlay. It has proven
> extremely brittle and shaky.
What's more, using eselect set which library to link to was regarded
harmful.
> The plan is to do this via USE flags similar to python-single-r1
> flags.
Yes,
On Tue, 2019-05-28 at 01:37 -0700, Mo Zhou wrote:
> Different BLAS/LAPACK implementations are expected to be compatible
> to each other in both the API and ABI level. They can be used as
> drop-in replacement to the others. This sounds nice, but the difference
> in SONAME hampered the gentoo integr
On Tue, 2019-05-28 at 01:37 -0700, Mo Zhou wrote:
> Hi Gentoo devs,
>
> Classical numerical linear algebra libraries, BLAS[1] and LAPACK[2]
> play important roles in the scientific computing field, as many
> software such as Numpy, Scipy, Julia, Octave, R are built upon them.
>
> There is a stand
