Donnie Berkholz wrote: > Hans Fangohr wrote: > >>>Gentoo does not provide a local use variable for that so I couldn't see >>>how to compile it supporting double precision with emerge. >>> >>>Can somebody advice me what the best solution to this might be? Should >>>we introduce a new local USE variable? If so, how? Any other options? > > > This is the best long-term option. Do you want to check whether there > are any existing USE flags we could use? > > In the meanwhile, you can copy the ebuild to your overlay and edit it to > act as desired. Adding a `use_enable float` to the configure line and a > 'double-precision' or something to IUSE should do the trick.
There is actually quite a few of these packages in science that have this double / single precision options. I don't remember any name now but I came by some of them. Phil -- [email protected] mailing list
