Re: LAPACK vs. OpenBLAS

[zimoun]

Hi,

On Thu, 24 Jun 2021 at 14:55, Ludovic Courtès <ludovic.courtes@inria.fr> wrote:

> Julia references both lapack and openblas:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> $ guix graph --path -t references julia lapack
> /gnu/store/d077a9ggqlcyhnhcg4ng2ibnlarxq8zf-julia-1.5.3
> /gnu/store/41rw9w35by4j8lbl85gi3xfiaf7zqykh-lapack-3.9.0
> $ guix graph --path -t references julia openblas
> /gnu/store/d077a9ggqlcyhnhcg4ng2ibnlarxq8zf-julia-1.5.3
> /gnu/store/bs9pl1f805ins80xaf4s3n35a0x2lyq3-openblas-0.3.9
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> Can a Julia-savvy person check whether this is justified?

I am not a Julia-savvy person, though I do not think it is justified.
I guess it comes from the requirements [1].  I am trying to remove
LAPACK and it could be part of the Julia v1.6 update, see [2].

1: 
<https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/doc/build/build.md#required-build-tools-and-external-libraries>
2: <http://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/48325>

Cheers,
simon