compiling R with tuned BLAS
I am looking at the instructions on http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-patched/R-admin.html#ATLAS I have noticed that ATLAS produces two shared libs in addition to the *.a files: http://math-atlas.sourceforge.net/atlas_install/node22.html contents of the ATLAS lib directory: libatlas.a libcblas.a libf77blas.a liblapack.a libptcblas.a libptf77blas.a libsatlas.so libtatlas.so The instructions do not appear to match up with the *.a files & *.so files as described. (it appears to want me to use shared libs, but the names defined are static libs, not shared libs). should I simply be having it link against libtatlas.so (and pthreads) for shared threaded atlas and libsatlas.so for shared sequential atlas? do I need shared versions of the other static libraries? I think the help is a bit out of date, or at least unclear as to what it intends of me. M. Gooch