Requesting new variant for octave and arpack

[Manav Bhatia]

Thanks! 

-Manav

> On Sep 11, 2018, at 2:17 PM, David Strubbe <dstrubbe at macports.org> wrote:
> 
> Hello Manav,
> 
> ATLAS is LAPACK installed from MacPorts, so what you are asking for is already available with octave +atlas.
> 
> The OpenBLAS port, if installed with +lapack, also provides LAPACK, in which case it can be used with Octave as "octave +openblas".
> 
> David
> 
> On Sun, Sep 9, 2018 at 9:49 AM, Manav Bhatia <bhatiamanav at gmail.com <mailto:bhatiamanav at gmail.com>> wrote:
> Greetings! 
> 
>    Please see the discussion here: 
> https://github.com/opencollab/arpack-ng/issues/149#issuecomment-419715128 <https://github.com/opencollab/arpack-ng/issues/149#issuecomment-419715128>
> http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/Issues-with-eigs-td4689314.html#a4689334 <http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/Issues-with-eigs-td4689314.html#a4689334>
> 
>    We have identified a bug in system lapack provided by the accelerate framework that prevents proper functioning of arpack. 
> 
>    I am writing to request the addition of a new variant in installation of arpack and octave to use lapack installed from macports. Something like: 
> 
> $ port install octave +lapack 
> 
>    Currently the only two variants for lapack are accelerate and atlas. 
> 
> Regards,
> Manav
> 
> 
> 

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