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| author | Denis Davydov <davydden@gmail.com> | 2016-05-12 08:59:17 +0200 |
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| committer | Denis Davydov <davydden@gmail.com> | 2016-05-12 08:59:17 +0200 |
| commit | 68c681bb788c86dc45c4df042f513fbf8a3e2c5f (patch) | |
| tree | a5055fb644b3bceb30b635c7b4c566f88a8bf5f3 /lib | |
| parent | e7ced54369583a72fc865834e4f7c209fb06f1c8 (diff) | |
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document blas and lapack usage in packages
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diff --git a/lib/spack/docs/packaging_guide.rst b/lib/spack/docs/packaging_guide.rst index 650e0ee3b2..f7f39d0d7b 100644 --- a/lib/spack/docs/packaging_guide.rst +++ b/lib/spack/docs/packaging_guide.rst @@ -1994,6 +1994,19 @@ instead of hard-coding ``join_path(self.spec['mpi'].prefix.bin, 'mpicc')`` for the reasons outlined above. +Blas and Lapack libraries +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +Different packages provide implementation of ``Blas`` and ``Lapack`` routines. +The names of the resulting static and/or shared libraries differ from package +to package. In order to make ``install()`` method indifferent to the +choice of ``Blas`` implementation, each package which provides it +sets up ``self.spec.blas_shared_lib`` and ``self.spec.blas_static_lib `` to +point to the shared and static ``Blas`` libraries, respectively. The same +applies to packages which provide ``Lapack``. Package developers are advised to +use these variables, for example ``spec['blas'].blas_shared_lib`` instead of +hard-coding ``join_path(spec['blas'].prefix.lib, 'libopenblas.so')``. + + Forking ``install()`` ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |