From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: R Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2016 15:02:06 +0200 Message-ID: References: <20160204193924.GA8852@debian> <20160205100040.GA4213@debian.eduroam.u-bordeaux.fr> <20160205190236.GA8063@debian> <20160205195449.GA8899@debian> <87lh6yx4rr.fsf@mdc-berlin.de> <20160205222426.GA11582@debian> <63b53a76-8343-38cf-ee2b-81ea517e50d9@uq.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42755) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bhyyv-0004CI-7j for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Sep 2016 09:03:09 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bhyyp-00082j-KO for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Sep 2016 09:03:05 -0400 Received: from pegasus.bbbm.mdc-berlin.de ([141.80.25.20]:41087) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bhyyp-00082d-DP for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Sep 2016 09:02:59 -0400 In-Reply-To: <63b53a76-8343-38cf-ee2b-81ea517e50d9@uq.edu.au> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Ben Woodcroft Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Ben Woodcroft writes: > Hi, > > I thought I'd respond to this old thread now that the openblas eigen=20 > error seems to be fixed. I'm interested in using openblas so that the=20 > (as yet not in master) WGCNA package works faster, among other things: > > https://labs.genetics.ucla.edu/horvath/CoexpressionNetwork/Rpackages/WG= CNA/faq.html > > > On 06/02/16 08:24, Andreas Enge wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 05, 2016 at 09:48:24PM +0100, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: >>> I would suggest to drop =E2=80=9C--with-lapack=E2=80=9D, too. (I hav= en=E2=80=99t found the time >>> to try building without this flag just now.) The manual says: >>> I don=E2=80=99t remember why I added it in the first place, so I thin= k it=E2=80=99s best >>> to drop it, considering that the manual tells us only to do it if we >>> know what we want to achieve by adding it. >> I did, and it still builds on arm. > > Shall I push the attached patch to core-updates? I tested it on x86_64.= =20 > Or, would you mind testing it on arm please Andreas? The patch looks fine to me and I=E2=80=99m generally in favour of adding OpenBLAS to R. =20 I should note that the R admin manual[1] says that the correct configure flag for OpenBLAS is --with-blas=3D"-lopenblas" I=E2=80=99m not sure if this makes a difference. ~~ Ricardo [1]: https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-admin.html#Goto-a= nd-OpenBLAS