[Slackbuilds-users] OpenBLAS issue

[Mário Antunes]

I will update the script,


Thanks

On 21/03/2019 17:46, Tim Dickson wrote:
> I'm having an issue with OpenBLAS slackbuild.
> if I use a qemu vm with -cpu host    (the actual host cpu is AMD 
> A10-9700) and pass the variable TARGET=ATHLON
> then the build fails part way through.
>
> if I use the same qemu vm with -cpu qemu64 and pass the variable 
> TARGET=ATHLON
> then the build completes.
>
> This is the reverse of the previous behaviour of the openblas script.
>
> I am guessing because if you use cpu=host, the real cpu is reported, 
> and for whatever reason, OpenBLAS does not like the combination of AMD 
> A10-9700 being reported when actually running in a vm without TARGET 
> being specified (and it is not used in the script if a qemu vm is not 
> detected).
>
> the script uses a uname -p to detect if it is in a qemu vm
> using
>  if [ "x`dmidecode |grep Manufacturer|head -n1|awk '{print $NF}'`" = 
> "xQEMU" ]; then
>
> allows it to detect more reliably if it is running in a qemu vm.
> I tested the script modified with the above qemu detection, and it 
> completes in both scenarios
> regards, Tim