f2cblaslapack with single precision?

[Satish Balay]

The old f2cblas is limited to double precision. We have updated
petsc-dev to use a fuller version of f2cblas..

You can try using this new f2cblas with petsc-2.3.3. [with the following steps:]

cd $PETSC_DIR
mkdir externalpackages
cd externalpackages
wget ftp://ftp.mcs.anl.gov/pub/petsc/externalpackages/f2cblaslapack-3.1.1.tar.gz
tar -xzf f2cblaslapack-3.1.1.tar.gz
mv f2cblaslapack-3.1.1 f2cblaslapack
config/configure.py --download-c-blas-lapack=1 ...

Note: Depending upon the compilers you have - generally fblaslapack
should work fine [so might not be worth the hassle of trying to avoid
using it]

Satish

On Wed, 29 Oct 2008, Christoph Sprenger wrote:

> Hello everyone,
> 
> i'm new here and have a first question concerning the building of petsc.
> i try to build the libraries with single precision, to reduce the memory
> profile, but having troubles to do so.
> i get an undefined reference to saxpy_  and other blas bits and pieces, since
> the f2cblaslapack.tar.gz doesn't seem to contain any single precision files.
> not sure if i am missing something fundamental though.
> 
> here is my config i used to build the lot:
> --with-cc=mpicc --with-fc=0 --with-cxx=mpicxx --download-c-blas-lapack=1
> --with-mpi-dir=/home/users/christophs/mpich2 --with-clanguage=cxx
> --with-sudo=sudo --with-shared=1 --with-debugging=1 --with-scalar-type=real
> --with-precision=single
> 
> it would be great to get a hint whats going on and what the best solution for
> this would be without going through the fortran side of things.
> are there other c packages than f2cblaslapack that have the individual single
> precision files ?
> 
> apologies for the rather newbie style questions.
> 
> 
> Kind Regards,
> Christoph
> 
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