138. Compile ATLAS blas on debian testing

I first tried the latest stable and gave up due to "ERROR 639 DURING CACHE EDGE DETECTION!!" errors. Hence, I used unstable.

Start here

mkdir /opt/ATLAS
chown ${USER}  /opt/ATLAS

mkdir ~/tmp
cd ~/tmp
 wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/math-atlas/Developer%20%28unstable%29/3.9.72/atlas3.9.72.tar.bz2

tar xvf atlas3.9.72.tar.bz2

cd ATLAS/


Edit ATLAS/Make.top 
change the V on line 6 to lowercase i.e. from

- $(ICC) -V 2>&1  >> bin/INSTALL_LOG/ERROR.LOG

to

- $(ICC) -v 2>&1  >> bin/INSTALL_LOG/ERROR.LOG

mkdir build/
cd build/
sudo apt-get install cpufrequtils

Since I don't like computers overheating I normally throttle my cpu. To unset throttling on a AMD64 (phenom II) six core system, before compile:
/usr/bin/cpufreq-selector -g performance
sudo cp /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/cpufreq/scaling_governor

sudo cp /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu2/cpufreq/scaling_governor

sudo cp /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu3/cpufreq/scaling_governor

sudo cp /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu4/cpufreq/scaling_governor

sudo cp /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu5/cpufreq/scaling_governor

Alternatively, you can disable throttle checking using the -Si cputhrchk 0 configure switch. If you don't, and throttling is on, configure will fail.

OK, continuing with the build, in your build/ directory:

.././configure --prefix=/opt/ATLAS -A AMD64

Before you continue, do
make xprint_enums ; ./xprint_enums
and study the output -- you might find a better ARCH fit than e.g. AMD64.  If so, run the configure command above again. There is a lot of other options which you can configure as well. Obviously, nothing prevents you from experimenting and re-compiling if something goes wrong. You can also run without any -A switch at all.

Continuing:
make
make install
cp lib/lib* /opt/ATLAS/lib

Your libs should be in /opt/ATLAS/lib -- when you compiled something to include the new libs, use
"-L/opt/ATLAS/lib"