Re: FlexiBLAS as BLAS/LAPACK manager - Fedora 33 System-Wide Change proposal

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On Fri, 3 Jul 2020 at 15:23, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
<zbyszek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jul 01, 2020 at 10:24:27AM -0400, Ben Cotton wrote:
> > == User Experience ==
> > Users will have a new CLI tool, called flexiblas, which will allow
> > them to properly switch the BLAS/LAPACK backend without administrative
> > privileges and any compatibility issues.
>
> Based on this description, the switching is done by setting some flag
> in local configuration. Is there a way to set the configuration through
> an environment variable? Having only "global" configuration (in the sense
> of a single setting for a user) is going to make testing much harder,
> and also it doesn't work for the case of multiple programs being started
> independently when those programs require a different backend.

Yes, the FLEXIBLAS env variable overrides the system-wide and
user-defined backends. So, e.g.:

$ FLEXIBLAS=blis-openmp someprogram

changes the backend to Blis with OpenMP support (provided that the
flexiblas-blis-openmp subpackage is installed).

-- 
Iñaki Úcar
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