[BuildTools-tickets] [BuildTools] #121: discontinue ThirdParty/Blas and Lapack

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#121: discontinue ThirdParty/Blas and Lapack
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Reporter:  stefan            |       Owner:  stefan
    Type:  defect            |      Status:  new
Priority:  major             |   Component:  build system
 Version:  trunk             |  Resolution:
Keywords:  autotools-update  |
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Comment (by lou):

 I've been poking at this on Fedora, and the situation here is that there
 are packages for lapack, blas, and openblas. The lapack package wants blas
 (not openblas). On the other hand, the packaged MUMPS wants openblas. It
 also seems to be the case that packaged blas libraries may include lapack
 (at least, there's a check for this in CHECK_PACKAGE_LAPACK in
 stable/0.8).

 Details aside, I'm in favour of dropping the !ThirdParty packages and
 modifying CHK_BLAS and CHK_LAPACK to look for an appropriate set of
 installed libraries. On linux systems, we probably want to go with
 something like `[openblas blas]`. People who are fussier can use configure
 command line parameters.

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Ticket URL: <https://projects.coin-or.org/BuildTools/ticket/121#comment:6>
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