On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 02:47:06PM +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote: [snip] Dear Debian toolchain,
I have managed to strip the rules file of the old lapack, and remove all documentation as well as patches with the aim of just getting a working lapack3gf. IMO, I think I have achieved it. Please note the following carefully, though: 1. I have used only a subset of the rules file which Camm had used. 2. The TIMING directory present in the old lapack upstream tarball is now removed. So, I have commented out/removed all the related package install instructions. 3. The lapack3-doc package is empty. 4. I have removed ALL patches. 5. I have built the package on an i386, and there is no guarantee that it will work on other architectures. Now, for the proof that the gfortran lapack I used works as expected, I built a lapack based package (IT++/libitpp), since it has a lot of tests in the build process. All the tests passed, and I got the following control file in the binary deb: <libitpp6_control> Package: libitpp6 Source: libitpp Version: 4.0.0-4 Architecture: i386 Maintainer: Kumar Appaiah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Installed-Size: 3696 Depends: atlas3-base | lapack3gf | liblapack.so.3, atlas3gf-base | refblas3gf | libblas.so.3gf, fftw3, libc6 (>= 2.6.1-1), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.2.1), libgfortran2 (>= 4.2.1), libstdc++6 (>= 4.2.1) Section: libs Priority: optional Homepage: http://itpp.sourceforge.net Description: C++ signal processing and communication library [snip] </libitpp6_control> See; no libg2c0. Yay! :-) So, I believe this does the job. So, what I would request you to do is, check out the lapack package, and see if it builds OK. Note that you need the refblas3-dev from experimental, since that pulls in refblas3gf. Once you get this, I would encourage you to try building IT++ as well, since it has a lot of test which might be a useful indicator of the wellness of my package. If many peopl at least certify this on x86, then we can move on to fixing it on other architectures, merging Camm's patches and polishing the package for experimental. OK, so here's the stuff: All files (debs etc.) are here: http://kumar.travisbsd.org/debpackages/ The new Lapack: http://kumar.travisbsd.org/debpackages/lapack3_3.1.1-0.1.dsc The new IT++ (didn't change to libitpp6gf or anything...): http://kumar.travisbsd.org/debpackages/libitpp_4.0.0-4.dsc My Lapack build log: http://kumar.travisbsd.org/debpackages/lapack_build_log.txt.gz I hope this is a helpful step in moving ahead in terms of the transition. Please ask me any queries you may have, though I myself am quite new to these things. Thanks. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
