https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=861081 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=861081#c4 --- Comment #4 from Åsmund Ervik <asmunder@stud.ntnu.no> 2014-02-12 11:26:31 UTC --- My users are not allowed to change alternatives or install/remove packages. The important thing to note is that it has to work with both openblas and blas simultaneously for different users. What I'm trying to use alternatives for is ensuring that openblas is the default when they just specify -lblas -llapack when linking. Then the people who require the stability of reference blas need to specify it with -L/usr/lib64/libblas.so.3.4.2 I agree that "update-alternatives --config libblas.so" would make more sense, but currently it seems "update-alternatives --config libblas.so.3" is the one used. Perhaps Debian is to blame for this: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianScience/LinearAlgebraLibraries . Anyway, typing in "update-alternatives --config libblas.so.3" gives me (correctly) a choice between the various blas versions I have installed, and works perfectly when I override the blas-devel symlinks so it's libblas.so->libblas.so.3->libblas.so.3.4.2 . Unfortunately this gets overwritten whenever blas-devel is updated. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.