v0.6.2 build broken on Mac OS X with USE_SYSTEM_BLAS = 1

[dlfivefifty]

I'm getting the errors below on a fresh build with USE_SYSTEM_BLAS = 1. This is on Mac OS X 10.13.4 with XCode 9.3.

[ma-solver-imac:~/Projects/julia6] sheehanolver% cat Make.user 
override USE_SYSTEM_BLAS = 1
override USE_SYSTEM_LAPACK = 0
[ma-solver-imac:~/Projects/julia6] sheehanolver% make
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100   465  100   465    0     0    450      0  0:00:01  0:00:01 --:--:--   451
100 24.3M  100 24.3M    0     0  5355k      0  0:00:04  0:00:04 --:--:-- 7060k
patching file SuiteSparse_config/SuiteSparse_config.h
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100   449  100   449    0     0    919      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--   920
100 6165k  100 6165k    0     0  2564k      0  0:00:02  0:00:02 --:--:-- 3365k
In file included from /Users/sheehanolver/Projects/julia6/deps/gfortblas.c:43:
In file included from /System/Library/Frameworks/Accelerate.framework/Headers/Accelerate.h:20:
/System/Library/Frameworks/Accelerate.framework/Headers/../Frameworks/vecLib.framework/Headers/vecLib.h:1:2: error: 
      "The vecLib framework is deprecated. Please include
      <Accelerate/Accelerate.h> instead of <vecLib/vecLib.h> and link to the
      Accelerate framework instead of the vecLib framework."
#error "The vecLib framework is deprecated. Please include <Accelerate/A...
 ^
/Users/sheehanolver/Projects/julia6/deps/gfortblas.c:47:12: warning: implicit
      declaration of function 'cblas_sasum' is invalid in C99
      [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
    return cblas_sasum(*N, SX, *INCX);
           ^
/Users/sheehanolver/Projects/julia6/deps/gfortblas.c:50:12: warning: implicit
      declaration of function 'cblas_scasum' is invalid in C99
      [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
    return cblas_scasum(*N, SX, *INCX);
           ^
/Users/sheehanolver/Projects/julia6/deps/gfortblas.c:53:12: warning: implicit
      declaration of function 'cblas_scnrm2' is invalid in C99
      [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
    return cblas_scnrm2(*N, X, *INCX);
           ^
/Users/sheehanolver/Projects/julia6/deps/gfortblas.c:56:12: warning: implicit
      declaration of function 'cblas_sdot' is invalid in C99
      [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
    return cblas_sdot(*N, SX, *INCX, SY, *INCY);
           ^
/Users/sheehanolver/Projects/julia6/deps/gfortblas.c:59:12: warning: implicit
      declaration of function 'cblas_sdsdot' is invalid in C99
      [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
    return cblas_sdsdot(*N, *SB, SX, *INCX, SY, *INCY);
           ^
/Users/sheehanolver/Projects/julia6/deps/gfortblas.c:62:12: warning: implicit
      declaration of function 'cblas_snrm2' is invalid in C99
      [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
    return cblas_snrm2(*N, X, *INCX);
           ^
/Users/sheehanolver/Projects/julia6/deps/gfortblas.c:72:5: warning: implicit
      declaration of function 'cblas_cdotc_sub' is invalid in C99
      [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
    cblas_cdotc_sub(*N, CX, *INCX, CY, *INCY, &dotc);
    ^
/Users/sheehanolver/Projects/julia6/deps/gfortblas.c:77:5: warning: implicit
      declaration of function 'cblas_cdotu_sub' is invalid in C99
      [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
    cblas_cdotu_sub(*N, CX, *INCX, CY, *INCY, &dotu);
    ^
/Users/sheehanolver/Projects/julia6/deps/gfortblas.c:82:5: warning: implicit
      declaration of function 'cblas_zdotc_sub' is invalid in C99
      [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
    cblas_zdotc_sub(*N, CX, *INCX, CY, *INCY, &dotc);
    ^
/Users/sheehanolver/Projects/julia6/deps/gfortblas.c:87:5: warning: implicit
      declaration of function 'cblas_zdotu_sub' is invalid in C99
      [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
    cblas_zdotu_sub(*N, CX, *INCX, CY, *INCY, &dotu);
    ^
/Users/sheehanolver/Projects/julia6/deps/gfortblas.c:115:5: warning: implicit
      declaration of function 'SetBLASParamErrorProc' is invalid in C99
      [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
    SetBLASParamErrorProc(BLASParamErrorProcNULL);
    ^
11 warnings and 1 error generated.
make[1]: *** [scratch/libgfortblas.dylib] Error 1
make: *** [julia-deps] Error 2

[ViralBShah]

I don't think you should use the System BLAS on mac. It is quite old, and getting deprecated and also has a very old lapack, although I see that you are forcing the lapack build.

[ViralBShah]

Maybe just the header needs to be fixed - looking at the error message. Could you try that?

[dlfivefifty]

I use it because OpenBLAS makes eig, nullspace, etc. very slow. Is there a better alternative?

[vchuravy]

I think some of these issues are fixed in upstream in OpenBLAS, but there hasn't been a release in a while.
Maybe we need to backport OpenMathLib/OpenBLAS#1471

[ViralBShah]

I and many others have tried reaching out to @xianyi for the last several months, to no avail. Maybe we can work off a fork until the original project has new maintainers.

[ViralBShah]

There is a release-0.3.0 branch now though: https://github.com/xianyi/OpenBLAS/tree/release-0.3.0, but it is missing some fixes and does seem to have known issues like OpenMathLib/OpenBLAS#1536

[dlfivefifty]

I’ve heard people mention MKL before, does that work on Mac OS X?

[dlfivefifty]

I realized my system might be in a weird state, so I'm not sure this issue is valid. Shall I close it for now?

[woodwm]

Hello, I sent a email to xianyi and got a response. He said he had provided others the privilege to release versions of OpenBLAS. Not sure whether this helps. @ViralBShah

[ViralBShah]

That does help. Thank you. Can you mention this on the openblas repo in the 0.3.0 PR?

[ViralBShah]

I can't reproduce this, even though I have the same MacOS and XCode versions. It is like Accelerate itself is pulling in VecLib, and then complaining. Builds fine for me.

[dlfivefifty]

I think we should close this since there were other weird things happening with my system (in particular with brew privileges).