ITP: lapack-3.0

2005-06-29 Thread James R. Phillips
All, Based on the recent discussion regarding an approach to packaging lapack, I have put together a trial package for evaluation by core maintainers. As noted in the previous discussions, lapack is hardly worth the trouble without an optimized blas, but this is only available via an

Re: ITP: lapack-3.0

2005-06-29 Thread James R. Phillips
My experimental ftp server at antiskid.homelinux.net doesn't work for passive transfers. It works ok with ie, or with command line ftp. wget doesn't work. I'll have to figure out what the issue with PASV is. But for now, just use ie. Thanks Jim Phillips

Re: lapack-3.0

2005-06-29 Thread Max Bowsher
James R. Phillips wrote: All, Based on the recent discussion regarding an approach to packaging lapack, I have put together a trial package for evaluation by core maintainers. As noted in the previous discussions, lapack is hardly worth the trouble without an optimized blas, but this is only

Re: lapack 3.0

2005-06-29 Thread James R. Phillips
--- Max Bowsher wrote: What sort of factors affect the optimization? Does the optimized library actually perform _worse_ than the non-optimized one if its binaries are copied to another computer? The optimized libraries depend on the floating point acceleration architecture. Atlas supports

Re: lapack 3.0

2005-06-29 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, James R. Phillips wrote: --- Max Bowsher wrote: installed by hand in the /usr/local/bin subdirectory. This insures two things: 1) they will be loaded at run time instead of the nonoptimized dlls Point 1) is valid only for executables not installed in /usr/bin

Re: lapack 3.0

2005-06-29 Thread James R. Phillips
--- Igor Pechtchanski wrote: One problem I have with /usr/local/bin is that this will write over whatever local version of lapack/atlas the user has installed by hand. Let's leave /usr/local for the user. That's exactly what I'm trying to do. The atlas libs installed in /usr/local/bin

Re: lapack 3.0

2005-06-29 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 11:59:16AM -0700, James R. Phillips wrote: --- Igor Pechtchanski wrote: One problem I have with /usr/local/bin is that this will write over whatever local version of lapack/atlas the user has installed by hand. Let's leave /usr/local for the user. That's exactly what I'm

Re: lapack 3.0

2005-06-29 Thread James R. Phillips
--- Christopher Faylor wrote: FWIW, I don't think we want to start a precedent of official cygwin releases installing things in /usr/local. The intent of the packaging design is that the official cygwin binary release would _not_ install anything in /usr/local. However, with installation

Re: lapack 3.0

2005-06-29 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, James R. Phillips wrote: --- Christopher Faylor wrote: FWIW, I don't think we want to start a precedent of official cygwin releases installing things in /usr/local. The intent of the packaging design is that the official cygwin binary release would _not_ install

Re: lapack 3.0

2005-06-29 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
James R. Phillips wrote: --- Christopher Faylor wrote: FWIW, I don't think we want to start a precedent of official cygwin releases installing things in /usr/local. The intent of the packaging design is that the official cygwin binary release would _not_ install anything in /usr/local.

Re: lapack 3.0 (OpenGL and ncurses maintainers please take note)

2005-06-29 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 12:09:03AM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: No subdirectories below /usr/bin, please. Right. This memo apparently didn't go out to the ncurses and opengl maintainers. cgf

Re: lapack 3.0

2005-06-29 Thread James R. Phillips
--- Gerrit P. Haase wrote: No subdirectories below /usr/bin, please. OK, could you live with /usr/lib/lapack? To be honest, I cannot follow the discussion. Why is it not possible to put the DLLs into /usr/bin? Is there another official package which includes the same libraries?

Re: lapack 3.0

2005-06-29 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
James R. Phillips wrote: --- Gerrit P. Haase wrote: No subdirectories below /usr/bin, please. OK, could you live with /usr/lib/lapack? Yes. To be honest, I cannot follow the discussion. Why is it not possible to put the DLLs into /usr/bin? Is there another official package which

Please upload email-2.3.4-1

2005-06-29 Thread Ross Smith II
Hi. Please upload new email-2.3.4-1 files: http://www.smithii.com/files/cygwin/email/email-2.3.4-1.tar.bz2 http://www.smithii.com/files/cygwin/email/email-2.3.4-1-src.tar.bz2 897a837b182a0ad7420147657c05ca63 *email-2.3.4-1-src.tar.bz2 bd5469e06281d50d279d68c1d169cf59 *email-2.3.4-1.tar.bz2 and

Re: Please upload email-2.3.4-1

2005-06-29 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 04:56:42PM -0700, Ross Smith II wrote: Please upload new email-2.3.4-1 files: http://www.smithii.com/files/cygwin/email/email-2.3.4-1.tar.bz2 http://www.smithii.com/files/cygwin/email/email-2.3.4-1-src.tar.bz2 Uploaded. Thanks. cgf

Re: update-alternatives

2005-06-29 Thread Bas van Gompel
Sorry for the slow reply... Op Mon, 27 Jun 2005 00:17:01 -0400 schreef Charles Wilson in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: : Bas van Gompel wrote: [Re-adding attribution:] + Charles Wilson: [...] : : without using execvp(). [...] : : Plus, alternatives itself needs to be smart : : about when to use a

Re: update-alternatives

2005-06-29 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 30 Jun 2005, Bas van Gompel wrote: Sorry for the slow reply... Op Mon, 27 Jun 2005 00:17:01 -0400 schreef Charles Wilson: : Bas van Gompel wrote: [Re-adding attribution:] + Charles Wilson: [...] : : without using execvp(). [...] : : Plus, alternatives itself needs to be

Re: update-alternatives

2005-06-29 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 10:32:17PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Thu, 30 Jun 2005, Bas van Gompel wrote: Sorry for the slow reply... Op Mon, 27 Jun 2005 00:17:01 -0400 schreef Charles Wilson: : Bas van Gompel wrote: [Re-adding attribution:] + Charles Wilson: [...] : : without using

Re: lapack 3.0 (OpenGL and ncurses maintainers please take note)

2005-06-29 Thread Charles Wilson
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 12:09:03AM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: No subdirectories below /usr/bin, please. Right. This memo apparently didn't go out to the ncurses and opengl maintainers. I fixed that months ago. ncurses test programs now install into

Re: update-alternatives

2005-06-29 Thread Charles Wilson
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Umm, why not? I mean, the mechanism for wrapping DLLs is very different than that of wrapping executables (and much more involved), but isn't there a possibility of writing a wrapdll.dll that looks up the name of the DLL in the /etc/alternatives database, dlopen's it,

Re: lapack 3.0 (OpenGL and ncurses maintainers please take note)

2005-06-29 Thread James R. Phillips
--- Charles Wilson wrote: FWIW, I think the /opt tree is PRECISELY the right thing to do with regards to the un-optimized lapack DLLs. With PATH manipulations, binaries like octave.exe can find the appropriate lapack DLLs -- unoptimized if /opt/lapack/bin is the only dir in PATH