On Fri, 2012-02-10 at 07:30 +0100, marco atzeri wrote: > On 2/10/2012 4:37 AM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: > > Furthermore, is there a reason you use libRblas/libRlapack instead of > > the system lapack libraries? > > A tough discussion with R developers. They consider the standard Blas > crippled as non correctly handling NaN. > > For what I saw they have the tendency to make their own version of any > lib that does not fit on their exact expectation, for the same reason > they do not consider libtool and have a very unusual build.
Bundling libs is usually a bad idea, and as Debian, Fedora, and Gentoo all seem to use the system lapack, I'd suggest to do so as well (as done in Ports). Yaakov
