Re: help with compiling octave-3.3.51

[Jaroslav Hajek]

On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 3:43 AM, Charles Yee <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> I am using lapack-3.0-37.el5.x86_64 and blas-3.0-37.el5.x86_64 for CentOS
> 5.4.
>
> I can run octave-3.2.4 because I had compiled it with --without-blas and
> --without-lapack options.
>
> Unfortunately, there seems to be no way of disabling blas and lapack in
> compiling octave-3.3.51.
>

No, there is no way, because Octave no longer comes with BLAS/LAPACK
sources included (that caused numerous problems in development). I
suggest you compile BLAS and LAPACK yourself, if your system libs
appear to be buggy. Btw., a system package called merely "blas" is
most likely the unoptimized reference BLAS, so anything from ATLAS to
several non-free BLASes will give you a much better performance.

-- 
RNDr. Jaroslav Hajek, PhD
computing expert & GNU Octave developer
Aeronautical Research and Test Institute (VZLU)
Prague, Czech Republic
url: www.highegg.matfyz.cz