Dear all, While I have been trying to so some ebuilds depending on blas and lapack, I collected a number of thoughts regarding their implementation in Gentoo:
* Gentoo doc: Mentioned in a year-old post on this list, there is this site: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/science/blas-lapack.xml Is it still up to date? It is not referred anywhere on the Gentoo web sites. * eselect: although eselect seems the way to go, it not yet fully functional. As I was working on the mkl ebuild, I found out it is not possible to add a new blas/lapack implementation without changing the eselect sources. As an example, mkl-7.2 is supported, but not in portage, and outdated. Also eselect blas/lapack do not yet provide a mechanism to show library directories and include directories. Something like "eselect blas show cflags"? Am I missing something? * Should we really keep those obsolete packages: - sci-libs/atlas: now decomposed as sci-libs/blas-atlas and sci-libs/lapack-atlas - sci-libs/blas: redundant with sci-libs/blas-reference - sci-libs/lapack: redundant with sci-libs/lapack-reference * cblas/clapack: as mentioned in a previous post, at least a virtual/cblas could help (as well as a cblas-reference) ebuild. * documentation: shouldn't blas/lapack install man pages and quick references as well as in Fedora (or may be an app-docs/lapack)? I am ready to help some devs on those issues if any interested. Sebastien -- [email protected] mailing list
