altivec compiler

[Mark Brethen]

Version 2.2 was released September 4, 2003. I found a BSD port and trying their setup with a fortran compiler. Which port should I be using for blas and lapack? Arpack is currently installed on my system with variants +accelerate +gfortran +mpich only.

Mark Brethen
mark.brethen at gmail.com



> On Nov 23, 2018, at 11:19 AM, Ken Cunningham <ken.cunningham.webuse at gmail.com> wrote:
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> all the standard MacPorts compilers (gcc versions, clang versions) support the -faltivec flag.
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> This flag is only useful on PowerPC systems, which I would be surprised if you were targeting. Is that the system you're after? The fact that it's still in the config suggests this is a very old piece of software.
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> BTW, for practical purposes, only gcc versions offer useful PowerPC code generation at present. 
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> K
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> On 2018-11-23, at 7:38 AM, Mark Brethen wrote:
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>> Taucs is a C library of sparse linear solvers that is a dependency for calculix-ccx. Looking at its config, it assigns 
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>> CFLAGS    = -O3 -faltivec
>> LIBBLAS   = -framework vecLib
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>> 1. Is altivec supported in the macports compilers group?
>> 2. There is a vecLib framework in /System/Frameworks but I’m not familiar with it. Would the atlas port suffice for libBlas and libLapack?
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>> Mark Brethen
>> mark.brethen at gmail.com
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