[Users] Editing .cfg file for a machine to use locally installed external libraries (Simfactory, optionlist)

[Dumsani Ndzinisa]

Hi Frank and everyone,

Yes, I eventually got past the error by leaving blanks on the
spaces for the values of most of the libraries' details, in
particular for the BLAS library.

The system is indeed a Linux system (Linux Mint 17).

Thanks for the correction on mixing package names and
library names. You really have a point there, it makes a
lot of sense to me.

However, it has been quite a long while since I did this
build. So with regard to the exact error message, I may
need to re-do the build and try to replicate the error.

Like you said, it was something about the linker not
being able to find some library(-ies).

I will get back and report on the results once I have
re-done this, unless you believe it is not too
necessary now.

Kind regards,
Dumsani

On 23/07/2014 13:23, Frank Loeffler wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am sorry for the long delay, if nobody else responded so far.
>
> On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 11:03:13PM +0200, Dumsani Ndzinisa wrote:
>>     BLAS_DIR = NO_BUILD
>>     BLAS_LIB_DIRS =  /usr/lib/libblas
>>     BLAS_INC_DIRS =  /usr/include
>>     BLAS_LIBS     =  libblas3 libblas-dev
>>
>> It turned out that the linker could not proceed well with this.
> It would be good to know what the error message was. Assuming it could
> not find some symbols:
>
>>     BLAS_LIB_DIRS =  /usr/lib/libblas
>>     BLAS_INC_DIRS =  /usr/include
> Try without these. The latter should be searched by default anyway, and
> the first might also just work.
>
>>     BLAS_LIBS     =  libblas3 libblas-dev
> This looks wrong. These look like package names, not library names. I
> would suspect you get the errors from the linker not finding libraries
> with that name.
>
> First, try leaving it blank. Then, your blas library might need some
> additional libraries like pthread, try adding these if you get
> unresolved symbols relating to threads.
>
> It would be interesting to know what kind of system you try to install
> this on. The package names suggest some kind of Linux, and the BLAS
> thorn itself should be smart enough to find the installed library there
> without you specifying anything. If this is not the case we could look
> into that.
>
> Frank
>