--- Charles Wilson wrote:
> FWIW, I think the /opt tree is PRECISELY the right thing to do with > regards to the un-optimized lapack DLLs. With PATH manipulations, > binaries like octave.exe can find the "appropriate" lapack DLLs -- > unoptimized if /opt/lapack/bin is the only dir in PATH containing them; > optimized if the local administrator installs optimized versions > somewhere (/usr/local/bin?) and takes affirmative steps to ensure that > /usr/local/bin precedes /opt/lapack/bin in $PATH. > Are there any other official packages that install to /opt? I don't have an /opt at all in my cygwin directory tree. I am reluctant to create a new top-level directory just for part of one package. Not that this couldn't work. What were down to is just a preference. Somewhere in opt would work; so would /usr/lib/lapack.
