On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 08:40:33AM -0400, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > > On Tue, 14 Oct 2014, Michael Banck wrote: > > > > Or should I point out how to "compile your own", like it is done in the > > > "Building an optimized OpenBLAS packages on your architecture" in the > > > README.Debian file of openblas-base? > > > Not sure what's in those files, but I suggest to support > > DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=custom in your Debian packaging, which would build an > > optimized package for a the user. That's what the ATLAS package are > > (were?) doing, and if we have enough packages like that, doing the m-a > > like tool as mentioned above would be a matter of knowing which packages > > do support it. > > +1 BUT from a user perspective it would have been much more > convenient if there was e.g. 'atlas-custom-installer' package which > would do that automagically at the package installation time.
Well, one downside of that would be that you'd need a development environment on every compute node you install it on, no? If you bundle a "please rebuild my packages with optimization" script with a local .deb archive, you'd only need to do it once on a frontend box. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
