On 5/10/07, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On May 10, 11:58 pm, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The lapack Cygwin package is a prerequisite for using > > the SAGE binary on Windows. Do you have it installed? > > > > No, I didn't and after the installation of said package sage starts. > It seems counterintuititve to me that the Lapack package also provides > a BLAS, but oh well.
I agree -- it is counterintuitive how that is package for windows -- who knows why they did that. Sigh. >As you might remember I have build SAGE on cygwin > more than a couple times over the last two weeks and not had that kind > of problem because otherwise the cblas by GSL is used. I did some benchmarks once and I think GSL's cblas is *really* slow compared to Cygwin's lapack, so it's much better to use lapack. > Anyway, after updating to hg tip all unit tests for DSAGE pass on > cygwin, which was the original intent of the whole exercise. Excellent! That's great news. William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
