On 07/19/10 11:20 PM, Peter Jeremy wrote:
On 2010-Jul-19 00:15:34 +0100, "Dr. David Kirkby"<[email protected]>
wrote:
Here's a new GNU Scientific library package.
http://boxen.math.washington.edu/home/kirkby/patches/gsl-1.14.spkg
can someone confirm it works on Cygwin. It takes less than a minute to build on
a half-reasonable machine, so it wont take too long.
I think you over-estimate what a "half-reasonable machine" is. Just
the configure script took over a minute on my fairly new Windoze laptop
and spkg-install took just over 1/4hr.
Having had my whinge...
spkg-check runs successfully on both FreeBSD and Cygwin.
Yes, sorry, I was overly optimistic over that time. I was perhaps thinking of
another package when I wrote that.
I'm unable to build it and test it in under a minute myself. It takes 53 seconds
to build on my Sun. When the tests are run too, that increases to 1m35. Whilst
this machine is about a third the weight of my SPARC boxes, it is not a laptop!
It would be interesting if anyone does have hardware able to build it and test
it in under a minute. Perhaps the /scratch area on sage.math would manage it if
one used enough cores.
Anyway, thank you for the build report.
PS. Many years ago, the university where I was working was throwing out some
stuff, and I took home a 21" Sun CRT monitor. When I got on the train,
struggling with what is quite a heavy monitor, the ticket inspector remarked.
========= Ticket inspector ============
Did you know, you can get laptops now?
=======================================
I can't recall why my reply was.
Dave
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