#1609: create an octave-3.0.0 optional spkg
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Reporter: was | Owner: was
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: major | Milestone: sage-wishlist
Component: packages | Keywords: octave
Work_issues: | Upstream: N/A
Reviewer: | Author:
Merged: | Dependencies:
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Comment(by drkirkby):
I thought I'd have a quick go at trying to make an Octave package, but I
hit a problem pretty early on:
{{{
checking for sin in -lm... yes
checking whether we are using the GNU Fortran 77 compiler... yes
checking whether /export/home/drkirkby/sage-4.7.rc0/local/bin/sage_fortran
accepts -g... yes
checking how to get verbose linking output from
/export/home/drkirkby/sage-4.7.rc0/local/bin/sage_fortran... -v
checking for Fortran 77 libraries of
/export/home/drkirkby/sage-4.7.rc0/local/bin/sage_fortran...
-L/usr/ccs/lib -L/usr/lib -L/export/home/drkirkby/sage-4.7.rc0/local/lib
-L/usr/local/gcc-4.6.0/lib/gcc/i386-pc-solaris2.11/4.6.0
-L/usr/local/gcc-4.6.0/lib/gcc/i386-pc-solaris2.11/4.6.0/../../..
-lgfortran -lm -lquadmath
checking for dummy main to link with Fortran 77 libraries... unknown
configure: error: in
`/export/home/drkirkby/sage-4.7.rc0/spkg/build/octave-3.4.0/src':
configure: error: linking to Fortran libraries from C fails
See `config.log' for more details
Error configuring GNU Octave
real 0m23.634s
user 0m9.304s
sys 0m8.385s
sage: An error occurred while installing octave-3.4.0
}}}
I don't know what BLAS library I'm supposed to configure this with. I have
tried:
{{{
./configure --prefix="$SAGE_LOCAL" --with-glpk-
includedir="$SAGE_LOCAL/include" --with-glpk-libdir="$SAGE_LOCAL/lib"
--with-blas="SAGE_LOCAL/lib/libcblas.so" F77="$SAGE_FORTRAN"
}}}
but are unsure if the 'libcblas.so' is the right library. I tried another
one (libblas.a), but had no luck with that either. If I omit the
{{{--with-blas=}}} option, then it fails with:
{{{
configure: error: A BLAS library was detected but found incompatible with
your Fortran 77 compiler settings.
}}}
I don't know how to get around this BLAS issue.
I think it will need a bit of work to create this package. To get the best
from Octave, you need a lot of libraries Sage does not include. It might
be worth putting those libraries in an Octave package and building the
libraries first.
Dave
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