[Rd] Error when compiling R with openblas

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 1 July 2014 at 12:00, Alexander Braumann wrote:
| I tried to compile R with openblas on a ubuntu 12.04 machine. I have to 
| say that I normally use the package system and that I have no experience 
| with compiling R.

You do not need to do that.  Just install the existing OpenBLAS package via

    libopenblas-base

(which you may already have) and R will use as the BLAS interface is
generic. That is what the package tries to tell you via [edited]

  edd at max:~$ dpkg -s r-base-core
  Package: r-base-core
  [...]
  Version: 3.1.0-1trusty0
  Depends: [...], libblas3 | libblas.so.3, [...], liblapack3 | liblapack.so.3, [...]
                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Any suitable LAPACK and BLAS package providing libblas3 / liblapack3 can be
used -- plug and play. And OpenBLAS plays along.

Also:
 
| I did the following:
| 
| ./configure --enable-BLAS-shlib --enable-R-shlib LIBnn=lib 
| --with-blas="-L/usr/lib/openblas-base/ -lopenblas" 
| --enable-memory-profiling --with-x=yes
| 
| 
| go the output:
| 
| R is now configured for x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
| 
|    Source directory:          .
|    Installation directory:    /usr/local
| 
|    C compiler:                gcc -std=gnu99  -g -O2
|    Fortran 77 compiler:       gfortran  -g -O2
| 
|    C++ compiler:              g++  -g -O2
|    C++ 11 compiler:           g++  -std=c++0x -g -O2
|    Fortran 90/95 compiler:    gfortran -g -O2
|    Obj-C compiler:
| 
|    Interfaces supported:      X11
|    External libraries:        readline, BLAS(generic), lzma
                                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

tells you that you failed to tell the build about your OpenBLAS. It fell back
to generic.

This is all in the 'Installation + Administration' manual. But you really
don't need to do this by hand.

I suggest you send follow-up to the r-sig-debian list. Its archives also have
past discussions of this and related questions.

Regards,  Dirk

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