Re: Building octave on cluster

[Thomas Weber]

On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 03:20:15PM -0700, Sergei Steshenko wrote:
>> > Octave in Debian is built against the reference BLAS and
> > LAPACK. Getting
> > your very own compiled ATLAS into the loop just means
> > dropping a file in
> > /etc/ld.so.conf.d/ and running ldconfig. 
> > 
> >     Thomas
> > 
> 
> Even though I have root access to my own machine I would _never_ do this.
> 
> This is because your assumption is that self-compiled ATLAS is good and
> you can safely change things globally.
> 
> I know that things are screwed up everywhere by everyone, so I prefer _not_
> to change anything at system level.
> 
> I compile and install 'octave' and all it needs in places of my choosing
> not using 'root' access.

So use LD_PRELOAD.

        Thomas