altivec compiler

[Mark Brethen]

I submitted a request: #57669 <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/57669> and noted where a current pkg for bsd can be found. So it may be doable.


Mark Brethen
mark.brethen at gmail.com



> On Nov 23, 2018, at 12:00 PM, Ken Cunningham <ken.cunningham.webuse at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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.
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> Ken
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> On 2018-11-23, at 9:40 AM, Mark Brethen wrote:
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>> 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
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>> 
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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.
>>> 
>>> 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.
>>> 
>>> BTW, for practical purposes, only gcc versions offer useful PowerPC code generation at present. 
>>> 
>>> 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 
>>>> 
>>>> CFLAGS    = -O3 -faltivec
>>>> LIBBLAS   = -framework vecLib
>>>> 
>>>> 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?
>>>> 
>>>> Mark Brethen
>>>> mark.brethen at gmail.com
>>>> 
>>>> 
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