Hi Bastien, On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 1:01 AM, roucaries bastien <roucaries.bastien+deb...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 8:05 PM, Andreas Tille <andr...@an3as.eu> wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 03:25:02PM +0100, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: >>> I have just created a cernlib.git under debian science with dsfg clean >>> source >> >> Great. Just ping the list once you run into any blockers or if you need >> a sponsor. > > My goal is to refactor cernlib support and to extract 64 bits ugliness > to some libraries. > > I have only interest in mathlib and I suppose they are safe (ping kevin)
I'd think (hope) that mathlib would be 64-bit safe in nearly all cases. Note that the existing (just-removed) packages run a set of test suites from debian/rules, and the debian build errors out if the test suite fails. The test suite for mathlib was pretty extensive. The only thing that might be a potential issue would be if any of the Fortran functions take an array by address as input. I seem to remember there were a few functions in mathlib that took multiple arrays as input, then calculated the element-by-element differences (?) using some other function, to which was passed the difference between pointer addresses of the two arrays. That may not be 64-bit safe. I'm afraid my memory on this is very hazy. It might possibly be addressed already in one of the existing debian/patches. best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <kmcca...@gmail.com> WWW: http://www.starplot.org/ GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-science-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/AANLkTi�o8f5g4rj5pylxvnb8-z7mjrhkzvjvvk8...@mail.gmail.com