Re: Freemat package in fedora

[Ankur Sinha]

On Tue, 2011-06-21 at 23:42 -0700, EI wrote:
> Fantastic! Thank you,
> Eugene

Hello,

I'm still in the process of building the package. It turned out to be a
tad bit more complex than it appeared originally ;)

I had a few issues I could use some help with. They're mostly related to
using system libraries instead of the bundled ones.

I'm using the -DFORCE_SYSTEM_LIBS=ON build parameter to force it to use
the fedora's packages. I've therefore made use of
lapack,arpack,blas,atlas.

I'm having trouble with the libDynBlas part. I cannot find this
anywhere. Is this a standard library, or is it one that has been written
specifically for freemat? My build is failing right at the end because
of this. The requirement is a libblasref, and I failed to find it. I've
tried to use libblas instead which I think is causing the errors. It
fails to find some declarations. The build log is here[2]. The error is
right at the end. My current spec is here[3]. (It's incomplete).

Could you please tell me how I can correct this? Must I use the bundled
libraries? It is against our packaging policy :)

I also wanted to know the rationale behind this patch[1]. Why is
libcblas.so preferred to libblas.so? (I haven't used blas or anything
before, please forgive my question)

[1]
http://svn.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/packages/cooker/freemat/current/SOURCES/FreeMat-4.1-blas.patch?revision=631021&view=markup

[2] http://ankursinha.fedorapeople.org/freemat/build.log

[3] http://ankursinha.fedorapeople.org/freemat/FreeMat.spec

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Thanks,
Regards,
Ankur: "FranciscoD"

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