discussion about OpenBLAS library names

[Dr. Thomas Orgis]

Dear Debian maintainers of BLAS libs,

I wondered if you have something to say to my attempts at getting a
workable library naming scheme of OpenBLAS libraries for pkgsrc (NetBSD
ports used on top of Linux distros by me).

	https://github.com/OpenMathLib/OpenBLAS/pull/4252

The Debian use case of a fixed set of binaries to distribute and then
have a system-wide choice of libblas.so symlink is somewhat orthogonal
to what I want. Both cases have their application. I do wonder about
details like not discriminating at all between OpenMP, pthread or
serial variants at runtime … if an application really needs a serial lib
because the parallel one would cause bad behaviour or even hard
conflict with the applications own threading, the user just has a
footgun at their disposal with the alternatives switch to
openblas-openmp? But maybe that case is too irrelevant.

Anyway, as the source of the major way I encounter BLAS when not
building it myself for HPC users, I'd like you to be aware of what we
discuss regarding library (and symbol) naming.


Alrighty then,

Thomas

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Dr. Thomas Orgis
HPC @ Universität Hamburg