Re: [ITP] openblas

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Dec  7 10:52, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> Hi Marco,
> 
> On Dec  6 22:55, Marco Atzeri wrote:
> > OpenBLAS is an optimized BLAS library based on GotoBLAS2 1.13 BSD version.
> > OpenBLAS is licensed under the 3-clause BSD license.
> > http://www.openblas.net/
> > 
> > Already available in most linux distri.
> > 
> > to download (remove the index.html's) :
> > ------------------------------------------------------------
> > wget -r -np -nH --cut-dirs=0 \
> > http://matzeri.altervista.org/x86/openblas/index.html
> > wget -r -np -nH --cut-dirs=0 \
> > http://matzeri.altervista.org/x86/openblas/index.html
> > 
> > find x86 x86_64 -name index.html -o -name md5.sum | xargs rm
> > ------------------------------------------------------------
> > 
> > As BLAS it is around 5-10 times faster than Netlib reference
> > The only package really relevant for user is libopenblas_dynamic
> 
> Right, but... isn't that a bit confusing?  Wouldn't a user expect to get
> the OpenBLAS lib when installing the openblas package?
> 
> Having said that, shouldn't the dynamic library be in the openblas
> package, or, alternatively, shouldn't the (empty) OpenBLAS package
> require libopenblas_dynamic?
> 
> I just had a look into the Fedora package where the openblas package
> contains the shared library and the basic documentation:
> 
>   $ rpm -ql openblas
>   /usr/lib64/libopenblas-r0.2.12.so
>   /usr/lib64/libopenblas.so.0
>   /usr/share/doc/openblas
>   /usr/share/doc/openblas/Changelog.txt
>   /usr/share/doc/openblas/GotoBLAS_00License.txt
>   [...]
> 
> Nevertheless, it's your call, so you can upload any time.

Btw., where did you get the packaging layout from?  On Fedora it
looks like this:

  openblas           Shared lib
  openblas-devel     Headers and libs
  openblas-static    Static lib
  openblas-openmp    OpenMP version   (whatever that means)
  openblas-threads   Pthreads version (why isn't that in the base package?)

openblas and openblas-devel looks a bit simpler that openblas with
libopenblas-devel and libopenblas_dynamic, IMHO.


Corinna

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