On Thu, 25 Aug 2022 at 19:15, Iñaki Ucar <iu...@fedoraproject.org> wrote: > > On Thu, 25 Aug 2022 at 18:34, Ralf Corsépius <rc040...@freenet.de> wrote: > > > > Am 25.08.22 um 13:19 schrieb Iñaki Ucar: > > > > > I assume their maintainers didn't do it on purpose, maybe it was > > > easier for a certain update, didn't have time to look into it and > > > weren't aware of the guideline. But this is very frustrating. Seeing > > > many hours of work just wiped out without any notice or explanation is > > > very frustrating. > > > > In my case (freefem++), it was actually was a mixture of all. > > > > To cut a long story short: This flexblas stuff doesn't "harmonize well" > > with freefem++, rsp. more bluntly speaking, flexblas breaks freefem++. > > > > Because of this, when going after freefem++'s regressions, years after > > the flexiblas changes had been introduced, I inadvertedly and > > accidentally reverted the flexblas related changes, because these > > apparently do not work out with freefem++. > > How exactly does flexiblas break freefem++? I see v4.10 was built just > fine. Then v4.11 reverted to openblas. If it works with openblas, I > see no reason to break with flexiblas, among other things because > openblas is the default backend. Moreover, arpack, superlu, > suitesparse and other BuildRequires link against flexiblas.
In fact, freefem++ was one of the easiest packages to adapt: you just set the library, and it does nothing fancy nor too-clever to try to discover anything. Here's a simple patch [1] and a successful scratch build [2], with all checks passing. Please let me know if I'm missing anything, but otherwise, I'll open a PR. [1] https://src.fedoraproject.org/fork/iucar/rpms/freefem++/c/a9da37dfd71508b4bad124fdbfd190b417f0afb2 [2] https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=91253729 -- Iñaki Úcar _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
