[CMake] Support OpenBLAS in FindBLAS module

[Xavier Besseron]

Hi all,

Is there any update on this issue?
I believe this addition would be really useful.

Best regards,

Xavier



On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 4:12 AM, Rob Zumwalt <rob.zumwalt at gmail.com> wrote:

> Apologies for the new thread, I just subscribed in order to comment on
> this, and didnt know how to reply in the existing thread.
>
> I am grateful to Xianyi for his addition of OpenBlasConfig.cmake, and I
> do recognize that this is the direction that projects should go when
> wanting to build CMake support for their users. The issue, as cgorac points
> out, is that other projects (LAPACK in this case) use FindBLAS.cmake inside
> their FindLAPACK.cmake files. So, in order to get FindLAPACK.cmake to work
> with OpenBLAS, it would require that the developers that maintain
> FindLAPACK.cmake change that file. The same would have to happen for any
> other projects that use FindBLAS.cmake.
>
> In short, CMake already has a “blessed” set of BLAS implementations (MKL,
> Intel, Goto, etc.), and it would be easier for users of LAPACK (and users
> of projects that use BLAS), if OpenBLAS were included in this set of CMake
> “blessed” BLAS implementations. Of course, OpenBLAS would still be happy to
> provide OpenBlasConfig.cmake (I am guessing) for users of OpenBLAS directly.
>
> Best Regards,
> Rob
>



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Dr Xavier BESSERON
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