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GSL cannot find CBLAS symbols

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From: Artyom Bologov <mail <at> aartaka.me>
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: 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.

Message #8 received at 69737 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Artyom Bologov <mail <at> aartaka.me>
To: 69737 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: Arun Isaac <arunisaac <at> systemreboot.net>
Subject: GSL cannot find CBLAS symbols
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2024 02:22:14 +0400

CC-ing Arun Isaac to keep him in the loop.
--
Artyom.

Message #11 received at 69737 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Richard Sent <richard <at> freakingpenguin.com>
To: Artyom Bologov <mail <at> aartaka.me>
Cc: Arun Isaac <arunisaac <at> systemreboot.net>, 69737 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#69737: GSL cannot find CBLAS symbols
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2024 20:14:30 -0400

Hi Artyom,

I found your code ran when I added

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(define libcblas
  ;; Your store path may differ
  (load-foreign-library "/gnu/store/dzx94b3xv4h1ik1bfrbxaw7n84y9r8zz-gsl-2.7.1/lib/libgslcblas.so"
                        #:global? #t))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

before (define libgsl ...)

> If global? is true, symbols defined by the loaded library will be
> available when other modules need to resolve symbols; the default is
> #f, which keeps symbols local.
https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/Foreign-Libraries.html

I have not tested if the calculation is correct.

-- 
Take it easy,
Richard Sent
Making my computer weirder one commit at a time.

Message #14 received at 69737 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Artyom Bologov <mail <at> aartaka.me>
To: Richard Sent <richard <at> freakingpenguin.com>
Cc: Arun Isaac <arunisaac <at> systemreboot.net>, 69737 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 Artyom Bologov <mail <at> aartaka.me>
Subject: Re: bug#69737: GSL cannot find CBLAS symbols
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2024 01:09:45 +0400

Hi Richard!

Thanks a lot, that solved it! I guess no actionable things for this
issue anymore. Sorry for the false lead on GSL 😅

--
Artyom.

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