[Gmsh] BLAS and LAPACK with gmsh

[Christophe Prud'homme]

Gugues

this has been fixed in Debian for some time. It seems that ubuntu is
not keeping pace with debian ;)

see
http://packages.qa.debian.org/g/gmsh.html
and
https://buildd.debian.org/pkg.cgi?pkg=gmsh

best regards
C.

On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 7:17 PM, Hugues Delorme
<delorme.hugues at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
>    I have successfully compiled gmsh-2.3.1 on my desktop kubuntu8.04
> with gcc 4.2.4.
>    However I don't know how to make gmsh cooperate with BLAS and LAPACK
> libraries which are required to perform mesh refinement.
>
>    What are the ubuntu packages to install ? I have installed the
> lapack3 package (see
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=lapack3&searchon=names&suite=hardy&section=all).
>    I have these files in /usr/lib :
>        /usr/lib/liblapack.so.3
>        /usr/lib/liblapack.so.3.0
>        /usr/lib/libblas.so.3
>        /usr/lib/libblas.so.3.0
>
>    but gmsh still cannot find BLAS and LAPACK, I get this error :
> "Determinant computation requires LAPACK".
>    I have already reconfigured gmsh with "./configure
> --with-blas-lapack-prefix=/usr/lib" and rebuilt but that didn't work either.
>
>    Can someone help me out ?
>    Kind regards,
>
> Hugues Delorme
>
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