Dear Debian toolchain, During my exploration, I came across this interesting observation, told to me by a Gentoo user. Gentoo have a patch which actually converts the refblas and Lapack distributions to an autotools based system, like so: http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/sci-libs/lapack-reference/files/lapack-reference-3.1.1-autotools.patch?view=markup
I actually tried it, and it seems to be another neat way to handle the package builds. It also adds entries to pkg-config, and is quite nice. The familiar F77=gfortran ./configure does the job. Though it may not be too useful in the Debian context, I still am trying it out, and must say that it does a good job. If it is used, it'll probably make the debian/rules a lot cleaner. However, we may have to repackage the tarball on new upstream releases. What do you say about this? 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]
