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GSL cannot find CBLAS symbols

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From: Artyom Bologov <mail <at> aartaka.me>
To: 69737 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#69737: GSL cannot find CBLAS symbols
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2024 02:06:28 +0400

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Hi y'all,

I'm working on Guile bindings for GNU Scientific Library (GSL), and I
encountered a bug: GSL cannot find CBLAS functions when invoked directly
from Guile.

I'm attaching a script, gslcblas.scm, ran (given that you replace the
path to libgsl.so in it with a machine-specific one) with

guile gslcblas.scm

[gslcblas.scm (text/plain, attachment)]

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It errors out with

guile: symbol lookup error: [...]/libgsl.so: undefined symbol: cblas_dscal

Loading libgslcblas.so into the Scheme image doesn't help, it errors out
the same. That's why I'm thinking it's not a Guile Scheme problem, but a
library one: GSL C code breaks with no knowledge of CBLAS.

The suggested fix is to link libgsl.so against libgslcblas.so (or any
other CBLAS library?), so that the functions from the latter are
available in the former. that seems to be what Arch package does
(https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/gsl/), at least. Although I
admit this is a strange circular behavior, it makes sense too: CBLAS is
an implementation detail for BLAS support in GSL, and should be linked
as such.

I'm not knowledgeable enough in the ways of building GSL (or any complex
C software really), so I cannot come up with a proper patch. Hopefully
that's enough info for someone to act on.

Acknowledgements: Huge thanks to Arun Isaac who helped me debug this
problem!

Thanks,
--
Artyom Bologov.

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