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

2005-07-01 Thread James R. Phillips
--- Charles Wilson wrote: > As I stated in my earlier message, I've no objections to /usr/lib/lapack > -- you're the maintainer. However, there are a few nits: > > (1) aren't there some header files that need to be packaged, as well? Actually, no. lapack and blas are fortran77 libraries, an

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

2005-07-01 Thread James R. Phillips
--- Charles Wilson wrote: > From the original post where I raised the issue: > http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-04/msg00305.html > > > Basically, a package to be installed under /opt creates an entire tree: > /opt//bin Thanks for the info. > > > However, I have no objections if you

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

2005-07-01 Thread Charles Wilson
James R. Phillips wrote: --- Corinna Vinschen wrote: It would help to keep everything in one place. As I said, I'm also ok with using /usr/lib/lapack, but using /opt here looks neater to me. Um, since you give me the option of keeping it as is, I'm going to do that. I need to press on to get

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

2005-07-01 Thread Charles Wilson
James R. Phillips wrote: Are there any other official packages that install to /opt? I don't have an /opt at all in my cygwin directory tree. I am reluctant to create a new top-level directory just for part of one package. Not yet. IIRC, the existence of /opt has gotten the go-ahead approval

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

2005-07-01 Thread James R. Phillips
--- Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > It would help to keep everything in one place. As I said, I'm also > ok with using /usr/lib/lapack, but using /opt here looks neater to me. > > Um, since you give me the option of keeping it as is, I'm going to do that. I need to press on to getting octave p

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

2005-07-01 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 30 05:40, James R. Phillips wrote: > --- Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > I'd opt for /opt (sorry for the pun). Bigger and more complex packages > > are better served by getting their own /opt subdir in the long run. > > Charles is asking for /opt for a while now anyway. Perhaps the lapack > >

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

2005-06-30 Thread James R. Phillips
--- Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > I'd opt for /opt (sorry for the pun). Bigger and more complex packages > are better served by getting their own /opt subdir in the long run. > Charles is asking for /opt for a while now anyway. Perhaps the lapack > package would be a good start. > Please look

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

2005-06-30 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 29 22:40, James R. Phillips wrote: > --- 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 -- > > unoptim

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 c

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 /usr/lib/

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