On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 4:15 AM, Matthias Schroeder <matthias.schro...@cern.ch> wrote: > On 02/05/2013 06:51 PM, Alan McKay wrote: >> >> I see LAPACK 3.0 when I do "yum search", but the latest version is 3.4.2 >> >> Is there any place to get the newer RPMs for SL 5? >> >> I've looked into building it but the instructions assume a knowledge >> of using the package. I'm just a lowly Sys Admin and want to build >> this for some scientists I support. > > > Have these scientists checked whether they really would need a newer > version? I know that many people always want the newest version around, but > in fact this is rarely justified. > http://www.netlib.org/lapack/improvement.html has a list of changes in > lapack. I think before you embark on rebuilding the latest lapack the > scientists you have in mind just verify that they rely on any of the > improvements listed. And if they can not point out which of the improvements > have a direct impact on their work but just mumble 'just to be sure' or 'in > general much better', I would not try to rebuild the stuff. A non-optimal > rebuild might do more harm than good.
I just tested the Fedora 18 published version. It certainly compiles successfully on SL 6, although I don't have a good test suite to work with it. Simply get the Fedora RPM, and run "rpmbuild -ba laback-[version].src.rpm". You will need to provide build dependencies: if possible, I also highly recommend using "mock" to build RPM's like this, so you get them built in a clean environment.
