altivec compiler

[Ken Cunningham]

If you provide a URL to the software, it's likely that someone will help you sort it out, if you have a bit of patience. There are lots of people like that around here.

Alternatively, and perhaps better, you could open a ticket to request a new port for it, and we can track progress there. 

If it hasn't seen an update since 2003, enthusiasm will be lower, tho.

Ken


On 2018-11-23, at 9:40 AM, Mark Brethen wrote:

> 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.
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> Mark Brethen
> mark.brethen at gmail.com
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>> 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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