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authorSerban Udrea <S.Udrea@gsi.de>2016-08-26 20:05:17 +0700
committerDavid Spencer <idlemoor@slackbuilds.org>2016-08-28 00:22:40 +0100
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libraries/atlas: Updated for version 3.10.3.
Signed-off-by: Willy Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr@slackbuilds.org>
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@@ -2,10 +2,14 @@ ATLAS (Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra Software) is an ongoing
research effort focusing on applying empirical techniques in order to
provide portable performance. At present, it provides C and Fortran77
interfaces to a portably efficient BLAS implementation, as well as a few
-routines from LAPACK.
+routines from LAPACK. Nevertheless, by default, this SlackBuild also
+builds a full LAPACK linked with ATLAS. If you are really sure that you
+don't want this, set LAPACK_SOURCE to the empty string when running this
+script.
-This conflicts with cblas (only one of atlas and cblas may be installed
-at any given time). Take care with LAPACK (see notes 3 & 4 in
-README.SLACKWARE).
+This conflicts with cblas and lapack (not to be confused with lapack-atlas).
+Nevertheless, it should be possible to avoid these conflicts by proper use
+of the SYS_DESTDIR variable.
-You need to read over README.SLACKWARE *before* building this.
+The impatient may just switch CPU throttling off and run the script, but
+you are advised to read over README.SLACKWARE *in advance*.