reference implementation of BLAS

[Warren Turkal]

On Thursday 21 September 2006 11:59, Tobias Burnus wrote:
> I didn't, but I think it has been (for CBLAS, I don't know).
> With reference implementation you mean the netlib.org version?

Debian Etch ships the netlib version as the refblas3 packages. I have modified 
the packages to compile with gfortran (version 4.1) and remove -O* from the 
CFLAGS and FFLAGS for cblas.

> Try whether the BLAS in GFortran Howto in the GCC Wiki helps you,
> http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/GfortranBuild

BLAS appears to build. The CBLAS tests seem to fail, however.

> Could you please tell us the version of the gfortran compiler you used?

4.1 on Debian Etch

*snip download info*

> If you have gfortran 4.x, x > 0, could you say what exactly is not
> working (copy error message).

 Test of subprogram number 10         CBLAS_ICAMAX
                                       FAIL

 CASE  N INCX INCY MODE                                COMP                                TRUE     DIFFERENCE

   10  4    1 9999 9999                                   3                                   2           1
   10  4    2 9999 9999                                   3                                   2           1

wt
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Warren Turkal, Research Associate III/Systems Administrator
Colorado State University, Dept. of Atmospheric Science