Re: use of ATLAS library in octave

[John W. Eaton]

On 25-Oct-2007, Himanshu B. Dave wrote:

| Will you kindly clarify whether libcruft is part of octave or something
| else?

Yes, libcruft is part of Octave, but it is mostly a collection of
Fortran code from other sources.  It contains a parts of the reference
BLAS and LAPACK sources so that Octave can be compiled on systems that
don't have BLAS and LAPACK libraries installed. The only reference to
dormrz is from one of the files in the libcruft/lapack directory.  The
reason it was unresolved when you first built Octave (without an
external LAPACK library) is because of an oversight when the files in
the libcruft/lapack directory were updated to a newer version of
LAPACK.  That problem has been corrected for 2.9.16.  I think you
would not have any problem if you started fresh and ensured that
configure finds the LAPACK and BLAS libraries on your system so that
none of the files from the libcruft/blas or libcruft/lapack
directories are compiled.

jwe