Re: [PATCH] Add Julia.

[Ludovic Courtès]

Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> skribis:

> Mark H Weaver writes:
>
>> When reading this the first time, somehow I managed to miss the fact
>> that users will have to set OPENBLAS_CORETYPE to their CPU type.  Does
>> that mean that openblas is unable to detect the CPU type automatically?
>> What does it do if OPENBLAS_CORETYPE is unset?
>>
>> Will we have to set it during the build of packages that use openblas,
>> such as Julia?
>
> It appears that this is not necessary.  I downloaded the OpenBLAS
> substitute from hydra and built Julia locally on my notebook.  Julia
> runs without problems.  It appears that OpenBLAS does detect the CPU
> type automatically.

That’s good news.

> (There is a problem with our Julia package, which made me build Julia
> myself.  Also seems to be related to CPU tuning.  Passing a make-flag to
> force a generic build should fix this.)

OK.

Ludo’.