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bug #57112: `version -blas` reports wrong BLAS with LD_PRELOAD to force loading a different BLAS

Submitter:  Mike Miller <mtmiller>
Submitted:  Thu 24 Oct 2019 05:13:40 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  Octave Function Severity:  1 - Wish
Priority:  5 - Normal Item Group:  Feature Request
Status:  Confirmed Assigned to:  None
Originator Name:  Open/Closed:  * Open
Release:  * dev Operating System:  * Any
Fixed Release:  None Planned Release:  None
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Sat 14 Dec 2019 05:43:16 PM UTC, comment #3: 

I pushed a change to the documentation of version here:
http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/06bb894770e8

Markus Mützel <mmuetzel>
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Mon 09 Dec 2019 01:50:33 PM UTC, comment #2: 

The attached patch adds a note to the documentation for "version".

(file #48026)

Markus Mützel <mmuetzel>
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Mon 09 Dec 2019 07:08:14 AM UTC, comment #1: 

Maybe we could add a note to the '-blas' and '-lapack' sections of the documentation for "version" that the result might be unreliable and depend on how Octave was compiled.

I agree that making the detection reliable is probably hard or impossible.

Markus Mützel <mmuetzel>
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Thu 24 Oct 2019 05:13:40 PM UTC, original submission:  

If Octave is compiled against a particular BLAS implementation, say "-lopenblas", but is run with LD_PRELOAD=/path/to/libblas.so to force a different BLAS library to be used, the `version -blas` detection still reports OpenBLAS.

This may not be solvable, because both the standard BLAS API as well as OpenBLAS-specific functions are all present in the executable image in this case.

Mike Miller <mtmiller>
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    2019-12-09 mmuetzel Attached File- Added bug57112_version_blas.patch, #48026
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