02.02.2011, 13:28, "Anton Shterenlikht" <me...@bristol.ac.uk>: > 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?
FYI: there are lots of BLAS implementations in the world, all of them having the same API. The same for LAPACK. -- Regards, Konstantin _______________________________________________ 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"
