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building R with goto BLAS on Ubuntu 8.04

2 messages · Dale Steele, Dirk Eddelbuettel

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Dale Steele
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I have successfully built R version 2.8.0 RC (2008-10-13 r46702) from
subversion director on Ubuntu 8.04.  I would like to build a version
which uses goto BLAS.

Thus far, I've downloaded the academic version of goto blas and run
the quickbuild command on my system:

     ./quickbuild.32bit

This command is successful creates a file:

     libgoto_baniasp-r1.26.so

I'm a little vague on how to proceed.  Thanks.  --Dale
Dirk Eddelbuettel
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On 13 October 2008 at 15:37, Dale Steele wrote:
| I have successfully built R version 2.8.0 RC (2008-10-13 r46702) from
| subversion director on Ubuntu 8.04.  I would like to build a version
| which uses goto BLAS.
| 
| Thus far, I've downloaded the academic version of goto blas and run
| the quickbuild command on my system:
| 
|      ./quickbuild.32bit
| 
| This command is successful creates a file:
| 
|      libgoto_baniasp-r1.26.so
| 
| I'm a little vague on how to proceed.  Thanks.  --Dale

As you know, Goto is not in Debian due to its non-free nature, so I do not
know how many of are in position to help you there _with Debian-specific
advice_. 

I would suggest to study the relevant section in the R Admin manual that
covers this.  It may be as simple as install / soft-linking your
libgoto_baniasp-r1.26.so as libblas.so in /usr/local/lib (or some other
place) and ensuring that ld.so looks there before it looks in the usual
places. But as I haven't tried this myself, take this with a grain of salt.

Good luck,  Dirk