Compiling BLAS with Accelerate
Seems you have not read the R-admin manual.
Guilty. Probably I was tired. I'll promise to read the friendly manual first next time.
The terms 'vecLib' (originally for PPC Macs) and 'Accelerate' are confusing: recent SDKs contain two different BLAS/LAPACK implementations under the name 'Accelerate', but neither are recent LAPACK nor pass checks cleanly.
It's interesting. I like to learn about software and CS history. I just know that such possibility exists from few days, and I've read it on r-project MacOSX FAQ :)
If I wanted an enhanced BLAS on macOS I would use OpenBLAS, which in my tests on an M1 Pro was faster than even 'new' Accelerate and 'make check-all' passed cleanly. (Follow OpenBLAS's instructions to build/install it, R-admin's instructions to build R against.)
I'll try it as well, thanks for the tip. I'm aiming to compare different BLAS implementations on Linux and MacOS machines. However I'm currently only on x86-64 architectures. T.