[Slackbuilds-users] Slackbuild for ATLAS?

[Aleksandar Samardzic]

On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 11:15 PM, João Felipe Santos <joao.eel at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to compile ATLAS, with nearly no success. Well, I can
> compile it and get a package ready by hand, but then it does not work
> when I try to compile software that has it as a dependency. I know
> that many software distributors ship their own ATLAS with their
> software, but I was trying to do a system-wide install like Debian
> has. ATLAS is very difficult to configure (they have a huge manual
> explaining how to find the best flags for your system), so I wondered
> if somebody on the list can give me some help, since we don't have
> this Slackbuild on slackbuilds.org. Any ATLAS-guru there?

They (ATLAS guys) used to provide precompiled binaries for several
types of processors; don't know why this is not the case for the
latest version, but you could find binaries for the version 3.6.0 at
SourceForge, and I have one for 3.8.0 and Core 2 Duo (that they
provided for download once at SourceForge too, but afterwards they
seem to removed it) saved on my disk, so I could send it to you if you
wish.  You may also eventually consider Intel MKL, which I could
confirm is reasonably easy to install (albeit without corresponding
SlackBuild in existence yet) on Slackware.

Regards,
Alex