I don't have BLAS functions.

[Daniel Carrera]

Hello,

The Julia documentation says that you can access some BLAS functions:

http://docs.julialang.org/en/release-0.3/stdlib/linalg/?module-Base.LinAlg.BLAS#module-Base.LinAlg.BLAS

However, I don't seem to have any of those in my system:

julia> help(axpy!)

ERROR: axpy! not defined

julia> using BLAS

ERROR: BLAS not found

 in require at loading.jl:47

julia> Pkg.add("BLAS")

ERROR: unknown package BLAS

 in wait at task.jl:51

 in sync_end at ./task.jl:311

 in add at pkg/entry.jl:319

 in add at pkg/entry.jl:71

 in anonymous at pkg/dir.jl:28

 in cd at ./file.jl:20

 in __cd#228__ at ./pkg/dir.jl:28

 in add at pkg.jl:20

julia> 

Does anybody know what's going on? What do I need to do to get the BLAS functions?

Cheers,

Daniel.

[Mauro]

On my system I need to qualify it with Base, so Base.axpy! works.

[Tobias Knopp]

Maybe it would be better to export the BLAS module instead of putting the individual function into Base? Like we have Pkg.init() one would have BLAS.axpy!

[Patrick O'Leary]

BLAS.axpy! works fine (with no other import/using statements) in both 0.3 (at least by 0.3.4) and 0.4-dev.

[Daniel Carrera]

Aha! Thanks. Yeah, I see it now.

Cheers,

Daniel.

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When an engineer says that something can't be done, it's a code phrase that means it's not fun to do.

[Tobias Knopp]

ups, then forget what I have said. I thought that I had tested it this morning but it seems I tested it not correctly.