On Sun, Aug 13, 2017 at 11:01:04AM +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Can't we make it a drop-in replacement for reference BLAS/LAPACK and ATLAS, 
> i.e., having symlinks or linker scripts pointing at least libblas.so and 
> liblapack.so to libopenblas.so.*, ideally also libblas.so.3 and 
> liblapack.so.3 so that no rebuilds are necessary and so that things using 
> dlopen and third-party binary blobs also use OpenBLAS?
> 
> The current situation where we have 3 different BLAS implementations and 
> where for most programs, depending on your setup, you get either the worst 
> one (reference BLAS) or a suboptimal one (ATLAS compiled for the baseline 
> architecture), but never the best one (OpenBLAS with runtime CPU detection), 
> is a mess.

This sounds like a good idea (and worthy of a Change). I hate to
suggest Alternatives but maybe it's appropriate here? 

-- 
Matthew Miller
<mat...@fedoraproject.org>
Fedora Project Leader
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