On Mon, 28 Aug 2006, Honza Mach??ek wrote: > Not experimenting with the ebuilds, just out of curiosity I've > downloaded FreeMat-2.0 sources from its page. After unpacking them I > have FreeMat-2.0/extern/Packages directory containing seamingly all the > dependencies for the package. There is matio.zip of 1.1.6 version there. Why don't you make the next logical step and include sources of glibc? Shouls every package include sources of each library it uses? How many copies of each library, of different versions, in different directories, I'll have? Some other packages use arpack and umfpack, why FreeMat should have its own versions of them?
This goes against modularity, *the* fundamental principle of any good Linux distribution. Also, the default build of FreeMat-2.0 is absolutely incompatible with the FHS standard. The specific question about building FreeMat-2.0 with matio-1.3.0 is, probably, not too difficult. I'll have a look today in the evening, and (if I'll succeed) I'll put the necessary changes to gentooscience.org. Andrey -- [email protected] mailing list
