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| author | Daniël de Kok <me@danieldk.eu> | 2020-08-10 15:47:38 +0200 |
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| committer | Daniël de Kok <me@danieldk.eu> | 2020-08-10 15:47:38 +0200 |
| commit | 14ac67cbb3156659c26ad69be743802701e9341b (patch) | |
| tree | dca53ac5be79d7d71e41ccc85108191497955fea /doc | |
| parent | 8ffc74313eb930c649a85375bdc89ad5add7566f (diff) | |
doc/using/overlays.xml: fix some small glitches
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/using/overlays.xml | 16 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/doc/using/overlays.xml b/doc/using/overlays.xml index 7f7c8bc42b55..7f6ee040c7c7 100644 --- a/doc/using/overlays.xml +++ b/doc/using/overlays.xml @@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ self: super: <para> <link xlink:href="https://software.intel.com/en-us/mkl">Intel - MKL</link> (only works on x86 architecture, unfree) + MKL</link> (only works on the x86_64 architecture, unfree) </para> <para> The Nixpkgs attribute is <literal>mkl</literal>. @@ -201,16 +201,17 @@ self: super: <para> Introduced in <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/83888">PR - #83888</link>, we are able to override the ‘blas’ and ‘lapack’ - packages to use different implementations, through the - ‘blasProvider’ and ‘lapackProvider’ argument. This can be used + #83888</link>, we are able to override the <literal>blas</literal> + and <literal>lapack</literal> packages to use different implementations, + through the <literal>blasProvider</literal> and + <literal>lapackProvider</literal> argument. This can be used to select a different provider. BLAS providers will have symlinks in <literal>$out/lib/libblas.so.3</literal> and <literal>$out/lib/libcblas.so.3</literal> to their respective BLAS libraries. Likewise, LAPACK providers will have symlinks in <literal>$out/lib/liblapack.so.3</literal> and <literal>$out/lib/liblapacke.so.3</literal> to their respective - LAPCK libraries. For example, Intel MKL is both a BLAS and + LAPACK libraries. For example, Intel MKL is both a BLAS and LAPACK provider. An overlay can be created to use Intel MKL that looks like: </para> @@ -229,8 +230,9 @@ self: super: <para> This overlay uses Intel’s MKL library for both BLAS and LAPACK interfaces. Note that the same can be accomplished at runtime - using <literal>LD_LIBRARY_PATH</literal> of libblas.so.3 and - liblapack.so.3. For instance: + using <literal>LD_LIBRARY_PATH</literal> of + <literal>libblas.so.3</literal> and + <literal>liblapack.so.3</literal>. For instance: </para> <programlisting> $ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$(nix-build -A mkl)/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH nix-shell -p octave --run octave |