> On Tuesday, April 26, 2011 2:52:01 PM UTC-7, François wrote:
> >  > On Apr 26, 6:14 am, Francois Bissey:
> > > > Actually do we know what version of
> > > > ATLAS/BLAS/LAPACK is shipped with OSX?
> > > 
> > > Here are a few excerpts from the sage install log file
> > > 
> > >   /Applications/sage-4.7.alpha5/install.log
> > > 
> > > on my mac.
> > > 
> > > ATLAS=atlas-3.8.3.p16
> > > LAPACK=lapack-20071123.p2
> > > BLAS=blas-20070724
> > 
> > I was meaning shipped with OSX not with sage.
> 
> On my machine (which is OS X 10.6.7, so it may not be relevant),
> /usr/lib/libatlas.dylib is a link pointing to
> 
> /System/Library/Frameworks/Accelerate.framework/Frameworks/vecLib.framework
> /Versions/Current/libBLAS.dylib
> 
> libblas.dylib and libcblas.dylib are links pointing to the same file.
> liblapack.dylib points to another file in the same directory, as do
> libclapack and libf77lapack.
> 
> The file .../Current/Resources/version.plist says
> 
> <dict>
>     <key>BuildVersion</key>
>     <string>6</string>
>     <key>CFBundleShortVersionString</key>
>     <string>3.6</string>
>     <key>CFBundleVersion</key>
>     <string>vecLib 3.6</string>
>     <key>ProjectName</key>
>     <string>vecLib</string>
>     <key>SourceVersion</key>
>     <string>2680001</string>
> </dict>
> 
> There are also various files like .../Current/Headers/cblas.h, but there is
> no obvious version number in those files.  There is a reference to
> vDSP_Version, which seems to be 268.0.  The file clapack.h says
> "Definitions and prototypes for LAPACK v3.1.1 as provided Apple Computer,"
> and the file modification date is July 11, 2009.  This file mentions the
> function zgesdd, which may be the one causing the problems, according to
> the discussion on the trac ticket.  There are no header files with the
> word "atlas" in their names.
> 
That clarify things a little bit. Proprietary implementation, the headers are
the standard one as you would expect. Atlas is not involved at all here.

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