I did get a reply, but not using R, I do not quite know what to make of it: https://bugs.r-project.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16697 It would be nice if someone using R could help me out; if you send me an ssh key, I could give you access to an arm machine.
To start, a probably simple question: Why do we use "--with-blas=openblas"? Andreas