cannot build with lapack support

[nackstein]

I'm trying to configure with lapack support but I get an error. without lapack support I can build and install.

debugging into the problem I found this:
gcc -o conftest -g -O2 -L/usr/lib/lapack/ conftest.c -llapack
/usr/lib/gcc/i586-suse-linux/9/../../../../i586-suse-linux/bin/ld: /tmp/ccNWVBxh.o: in function main': /home/vortex/necpp-master/conftest.c:35: undefined reference to clapack_zgetrf'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

readelf -Ws /usr/lib/lapack/liblapack.so.3.8.0 |grep zgetrf
1376: 0016eb00 1163 FUNC GLOBAL DEFAULT 13 zgetrf_
1642: 00026e00 1403 FUNC GLOBAL DEFAULT 13 zgetrf2_

for what I understand the configure create a conftest.c file and try to link against lapack calling clapack_zgetrf but this function is simply called zgetrf_ in the library.
I built lapack myself with rpmbuild on opensuse.

thanks for looking into this issue
Luigi

[tmolteno]

Your system requires the lapack libraries in order to pass that test. These are available in the libatlas-base-dev package on Debian based systems.

sudo apt-get install libatlas-base-dev

should do the trick if you'd like to compile with lapack accelerated solvers.

[ly2ss]

Hi,
Thank you for the software!
ubuntu 18.0.4lts with libatlas-base-dev installed.

checking for clapack_zgetrf in -llapack... no
configure: error: in `/src/necpp':
configure: error: lapack library test failed (--without-lapack to disable)

It builds with without-lapack ok, but I am trying to model huge files (at least for me - 6000+ wires) and I would like to know how to speed things up.

[ewheelerinc]

Hello all, we have the same issue on CentOS 7:

• lapack-devel-3.4.2-8.el7.x86_64
• atlas-devel-3.10.1-12.el7.x86_64

checking for clapack_zgetrf in -llapack... no

configure:16784: checking for clapack_zgetrf in -llapack
configure:16817: gcc -o conftest -I/usr/include   conftest.c -llapack  -llapack -lblas   -L/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.8.5 -L/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.8.5/../../../../lib64 -L/lib/../lib64 -L/usr/lib/../lib64 -L/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.8.5/../../.. -lgfortran -lm -lquadmath >&5
/tmp/ccEND97d.o: In function `main':
conftest.c:(.text+0xa): undefined reference to `clapack_zgetrf'

configure: error: in `/usr/src/upstream/nec2-cpp':
configure: error: lapack library test failed (--without-lapack to disable)

It looks like the function might be available in libsatlas or libtatlas, does that make sense?

# rpm -ql atlas-devel-3.10.1-12.el7.x86_64|xargs grep zgetrf
/usr/include/clapack.h:int clapack_zgetrf(const enum CBLAS_ORDER Order, const int M, const int N,
Binary file /usr/lib64/atlas/libsatlas.so matches
Binary file /usr/lib64/atlas/libtatlas.so matches

[ewheelerinc]

Linking to this issue, sounds related:
#57

[ewheelerinc]

FYI, this link describes how to patch configure.ac to support OpenBLAS and ATLAS and (probably) fix this issue: https://stackoverflow.com/a/69095758/14055985

I was able to copy the configure.ac content and include PSFEX's .m4 macro files and build it with HAVE_ATLAS and HAVE_OPENBLAS defines, so I know it works for CentOS 7 and probably other distributions too. I've not tried patching necpp but perhaps it will help.

(In my case it built into xnec2c which is an NEC2 implementation independent of necpp, however that project will use dlopen() and dynamically bind based on what is available.)

[ewheelerinc]

In case it is helpful, here is the .c file that xnec2c uses to support LAPACK, OpenBLAS and Intel MKL as shared objects to auto-detect and dynamically link as available:

https://github.com/KJ7LNW/xnec2c/blob/master/src/mathlib.c

[SimplebutComplex]

This is still a bug with Ubuntu 20.04. Having to hack the config.ac. Has anyone convert this project to using cmake?