On 24 February 2015 at 10:25, Jerry James <loganjerry@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 10:46 PM, Orcan Ogetbil <oget.fedora@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Can you elaborate on this? gsl has plenty of other routines that have >> nothing to do with linear algebra. Is there a technical reason why you >> have to link to a BLAS if the code using gsl does not actually need a >> BLAS? > > The blas symbols are not weak, so they are undefined when linking an > application without a BLAS library. See the output of "ldd -r > /usr/lib64/libgsl.so.0.17.0" on Rawhide. Those symbols should be weak > instead. That way, if an application doesn't use them, they don't > prevent linking without a BLAS library. Thank you for the explanation. I see that there are symbols named gsl_blas_* in libgsl.so. I guess they are an interface layer to some blas implementation. I wonder why they were not factored out to some other dynamic object, or made weak like you said. Best, Orcan -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
