Bug 1007058 - Remove default linkage to ATLAS in gsl
Summary: Remove default linkage to ATLAS in gsl
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gsl
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Susi Lehtola
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-09-11 19:56 UTC by Susi Lehtola
Modified: 2015-02-21 22:49 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2014-02-15 21:21:30 UTC
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Description Susi Lehtola 2013-09-11 19:56:28 UTC 
Hi,


I'm the reason why GSL is nowadays linked with ATLAS. However, I've realized since that the GSL library is not linked by default to a CBLAS library just because upstream wants this option to be left to the user
 http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/manual/html_node/Linking-with-an-alternative-BLAS-library.html

Now that there is actually a better BLAS library in Fedora, namely OpenBLAS, I'd recommend returning gsl to the original state of requiring the specification of a CBLAS library at link time.
Comment 1 Susi Lehtola 2014-02-15 21:07:12 UTC 
Ping, any progress?

I can address this myself.
Comment 2 Jerry James 2015-02-21 21:25:23 UTC 
This change broke opengrm-ngram.  It now has undefined symbols at runtime.  In fact, this change will have broken lots of (if not all) gsl-using libraries and applications.  At the very least, maintainers of all affected packages should have been notified of this change.  Even better would have been a rebuild of all affected programs to find out which ones would break.

In my opinion, this change should be announced on fedora-devel immediately, with follow up emails or bugs filed against all affected packages.
Comment 3 Susi Lehtola 2015-02-21 22:49:05 UTC 
Good suggestion, on it.
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