[bug#49096] [PATCH] gnu: petsc: Link against OpenBLAS rather than LAPACK.

[Ludovic Courtès]

From: Ludovic Courtès <ludovic.courtes@inria.fr>

OpenBLAS performs better than LAPACK, the reference implementation.
This is also consistent with the choice of BLAS/LAPACK implementations
made in most other packages.

* gnu/packages/maths.scm (petsc)[inputs]: Replace LAPACK by OPENBLAS.
[arguments]: Pass "--with-openmp=1".
---
 gnu/packages/maths.scm | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Hi!

Usually there’s no reason to depend on the reference (“Netlib”) BLAS/LAPACK
implementations because they perform poorly.  This change is one way to
bring consistency here.

Thoughts?

Ludo’.

diff --git a/gnu/packages/maths.scm b/gnu/packages/maths.scm
index a79d546abd..8d47f91310 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/maths.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/maths.scm
@@ -2417,7 +2417,7 @@ September 2004}")
      `(("python" ,python-2)))
     (inputs
      `(("gfortran" ,gfortran)
-       ("lapack" ,lapack)
+       ("openblas" ,openblas)
        ("superlu" ,superlu)
        ;; leaving out hdf5 and fftw, as petsc expects them to be built with mpi
        ;; leaving out opengl, as configuration seems to only be for mac
@@ -2428,6 +2428,7 @@ September 2004}")
        #:configure-flags
        `("--with-mpi=0"
          "--with-openmp=1"
+         "--with-openblas=1"
          "--with-superlu=1")
        #:make-flags
        ;; Honor (parallel-job-count) for build.  Do not use --with-make-np,
-- 
2.32.0