Re: [PATCH] Add openblas.

[Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de>]

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Ludovic Courtès writes:

> Eric Bavier <ericbavier@openmailbox.org> skribis:
>
>> On 2015-03-17 06:32, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
>>> From: Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de>
>>> Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 12:24:45 +0100
>>> Subject: [PATCH] gnu: Add openblas.
>>>
>>> * gnu/packages/maths.scm (openblas): New variable.
>>
>> Does the build system need any special flags for cpu-targeting?
>> I.e. does the build system detect the cpu that it is building on?  If
>> that's the case, I believe we've usually targeted the least common
>> denominator for our supported system (e.g. SSE2 for x86-64).

With only "make" the CPU is detected as part of the build process.  If
the "TARGET" flag is provided a specific CPU is targeted.

> Another option is to do the same as for ATLAS, which is to force a
> local build.

Attached is an updated patch that forces a local build.


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From 19fe9456bc8f7570f5c34537fd2ce4921c117a01 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de>
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 12:24:45 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] gnu: Add openblas.

* gnu/packages/maths.scm (openblas): New variable.
---
 gnu/packages/maths.scm | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 35 insertions(+)

diff --git a/gnu/packages/maths.scm b/gnu/packages/maths.scm
index b253850..0d2efdd 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/maths.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/maths.scm
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@
   #:use-module (guix build-system gnu)
   #:use-module (gnu packages algebra)
   #:use-module (gnu packages bison)
+  #:use-module (gnu packages check)
   #:use-module (gnu packages cmake)
   #:use-module (gnu packages compression)
   #:use-module (gnu packages curl)
@@ -992,6 +993,40 @@ based on transforming an expression into a bytecode and precalculating
 constant parts of it.")
     (license license:expat)))
 
+(define-public openblas
+  (package
+    (name "openblas")
+    (version "0.2.13")
+    (source
+     (origin
+       (method url-fetch)
+       (uri (string-append "https://github.com/xianyi/OpenBLAS/tarball/v"
+                           version))
+       (file-name (string-append name "-" version ".tar.gz"))
+       (sha256
+        (base32
+         "1asg5mix13ipxgj5h2yj2p0r8km1di5jbcjkn5gmhb37nx7qfv6k"))))
+    (build-system gnu-build-system)
+    (arguments
+     '(#:tests? #f  ;no "check" target
+       #:substitutable? #f ;force local build because of CPU detection
+       #:make-flags
+       (list (string-append "PREFIX=" (assoc-ref %outputs "out"))
+             "SHELL=bash"
+             "NO_LAPACK=1")
+       ;; no configure script
+       #:phases (alist-delete 'configure %standard-phases)))
+    (inputs
+     `(("fortran" ,gfortran-4.8)))
+    (native-inputs
+     `(("cunit" ,cunit)
+       ("perl" ,perl)))
+    (home-page "http://www.openblas.net/")
+    (synopsis "Optimized BLAS library based on GotoBLAS")
+    (description
+     "OpenBLAS is a BLAS library forked from the GotoBLAS2-1.13 BSD version.")
+    (license license:bsd-3)))
+
 (define-public openlibm
   (package
     (name "openlibm")
-- 
2.1.0