[Slackbuilds-users] Building atlas

[Erich Ritz]

Hi Rich,


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On Thursday, February 18, 2021 11:38 AM, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:

> The hardware has an AMD Ryzen7 2700 (8 cores/16 threads) and 32G RAM. I'm
> trying to build atlas but it bails out because of throttling and references
> its INSTALL.txt which I cannot find. The (compressed) build log is attached.

Perhaps it meant to reference this?
https://slackbuilds.org/slackbuilds/14.2/libraries/atlas/README.SLACKWARE
which instructs you to do:
/etc/rc.d/rc.cpufreq performance

> I don't overclock and I hesitate to mess with the clock speed.
>
> I've had this issue before and used BLAS-ATLAS instead. I can do that again
> if it's advisable.
>
> I'd appreciate your advice on building atlas on this host.

If you can't get atlas to build, try OpenBLAS instead.  I use OpenBLAS with octave without a problem.  Note that OpenBLAS can be used instead of atlas (and also instead of blas+lapack).  The README for octave explains the situation quite clearly, in my opinion.

Erich