I've put a port of Slatec together: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/151970
Recently I realised that some 110 routines in Slatec are already present in math/blas, and the Blas versions seem to be newer. % ar -t /usr/local/lib/libblas.a | sort > blas.sorted % ar -t /usr/local/lib/libslatec.a | sort > slatec.sorted % comm -12 blas.sorted slatec.sorted | wc 110 110 882 % I can see benefits and disadvantages of having same routines in different libraries. Advantages are that a user can choose to only install Slatec, with no Blas, and that no fine tuning of the distribution is required. Disadvantages could be extra size and potential for confusion, e.g. when linking against both libraries. Is there a FreeBSD ports policy on this? Many thanks Anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423 _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"