Note for packages linking against GSL [ACTION NEEDED]

Orcan Ogetbil oget.fedora at gmail.com
Tue Feb 24 05:46:37 UTC 2015


On 21 February 2015 at 18:50, Susi Lehtola wrote:
> Because libgsl is no longer linked to a CBLAS library, packages linking to
> GSL need to also link to a CBLAS library, ATLAS probably being the best
> candidate since OpenBLAS is not available for all Fedora architectures.

Can you elaborate on this? gsl has plenty of other routines that have
nothing to do with linear algebra. Is there a technical reason why you
have to link to a BLAS if the code using gsl does not actually need a
BLAS?

Thanks,
Orcan


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