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Using ATLAS in Fedora 36, R-4.2.2 -- fails configure

Martin Maechler 
> On Fri, 16 Dec 2022 at 17:06, Martin Maechler
> <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch> wrote:
>> 
    >> The CRAN team has found some misbehavior of some of our
    >> code running under ATLAS (for BLAS + Lapack).
    >> 
    >> I had successfully built a version of R-4.2.1 linked to
    >> ATLAS under Fedora 34 (last June) and that still runs in
    >> Fedora 36.
    >> 
    >> However I can not install packages with C source code
    >> needing BLAS/Lapack..  I figured that's ok, as indeed
    >> that version of R was built with earlier compilers and
    >> libraries under F34.
    >> 
    >> So I wanted to "redo" the same thing (which worked), now
    >> with F36 and R 4.2.2:
    >> 
    >> inside a build directory (side by side with the unpacked
    >> R-4.2.2/ R sources)
    >> 
    >> ../R-4.2.2/configure -C '--with-blas=-L/usr/lib64/atlas
    >> -ltatlas'
    >> 
    >> and this "worked along" about 400 lines of output
    >> starting with
    >> 
    >> checking build system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
    >> checking host system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu loading
    >> site script '../R-4.2.2/config.site' checking for
    >> pwd... /usr/bin/pwd checking whether builddir is
    >> srcdir... no checking whether ln -s works... yes checking
    >> for ar... ar checking for a BSD-compatible
    >> install... /usr/bin/install -c checking for
    >> sed... /usr/bin/sed
    >> 
    >> .......................................
    >> .......................................
    >> .......................................
    >> .......................................
    >> .......................................
    >> .......................................  and ending with
    >> 
    >> checking whether catan exists and is declared... yes
    >> checking whether ccosh exists and is declared... yes
    >> checking whether csinh exists and is declared... yes
    >> checking whether ctanh exists and is declared... yes
    >> checking for working ctanh... yes checking whether
    >> 'struct tm' includes tm_zone... yes checking whether
    >> 'struct tm' includes tm_gmtoff... yes checking for dgemm_
    >> in -L/usr/lib64/atlas -ltatlas... no configure: error:
    >> BLAS was specified but not available
    >> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    >> 
    >> but clearly /usr/lib64/atlas/ is there and contains the
    >> (dnf installed) files libtatlas.so.*
    >> 
    >> $ ls -l /usr/lib64/atlas total 24672 lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root
    >> root 17 Jan 19 2022 libsatlas.so.3 -> libsatlas.so.3.10
    >> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 12581672 Jan 19 2022
    >> libsatlas.so.3.10 lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 17 Jan 19 2022
    >> libtatlas.so.3 -> libtatlas.so.3.10 -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root
    >> root 12679024 Jan 19 2022 libtatlas.so.3.10 $

    > The unversioned file libtatlas.so is missing here, which
    > means that you need to install atlas-devel. Then it should
    > work, but let me know if you find more issues.

Embarrassingly, this *was* the simple solution.

Thank you, I?aki!
Martin

    > I?aki

    >> and no, I can't use nm to find symbols in
    >> libtatlas.so.3.10 because it is "stripped".
    >> 
    >> I'm glad for hints -- and I could send the 10000 lines
    >> long config.log file (just 340k) to someone interested.
    >> 
    >> Thank you in advance, Martin
    >> 
    >> Martin M?chler ETH Zurich and R Core team