Dear Debian toolchain, I have got some more good news. I just tried out Octave 2.9 with the shiny new lapack3gf, and it works pretty OK. I am NOT providing the debs or source packages, since I don't want many duplicate packages floating around. Therefore, I just mention the steps I followed:
1. In my sid chroot, get all build dependencies. 2. Observe that of the dependencies, libsuitesparse Build-Depends on lapack3-dev. So, first get it to work. It already uses gfortran, so all I had to do was rebuild it with the new lapack3-dev and refblas3-dev. In some Makefiles, however, I got some linking troubles, with the linker unable to resolve _gfortran_runtime_error. That was easily worked around by adding -lgfortran to those lines. 3. Get octave2.9. Bump the Build-Depend on g++ to g++ (>= 4.1.x) to plain g++, and Build-Depend on the new lapack3-dev and refblas3-dev, and build the package to arrive at an octave executable whose ldd doesn't have libg2c (BTW, libg2c isn't even installed). And, before I forget, Octave also does math! :-) So, I think we can now assume that the building of Lapack with gfortran is no problem, since Lapack upstream themseves have provided the Makefile for using gfortran. I now request people to have a look at Camm's patches and apply them one by one, on a need basis. Once you have checked the patches and merged the documentation, I think we can upload it to experimental. So, please do contribute to this when you have free time. Also, I would request someone to upload the lapack3 package to Alioth's collab-maint (I just remembered that I may also 5Bhave rights to do so!). Would anyone mind if I put it on collab-maint Git, or would svn be preferable? Also, do you think it is OK to upload it to collab-maint in the current state, or would you recommend that more work be done on it before we upload it there? I am away during the weekend, and will be back early next week, and will try to help out by testing more packages in my chroot. HTH. 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]
