Re: [Pdl-devel] [Pdl-general] PDL 2.027 released

2021-03-08 Thread Ed
Hi Ingo, That would probably be the build process (the relevant Makefile.PL) not catching that a needed library was missing on your system. Currently, PDL::LinearAlgebra (a PDL interface to an already-installed LAPACK library) has the same issue, which is why it gets lots of failures on CPAN

Re: [Pdl-devel] data flow, conversion & dimensions in complex numbers

2021-03-08 Thread Luis Mochan
Hi Ingo and all, On Mon, Mar 08, 2021 at 09:07:11PM +0100, Ingo Schmid wrote: > ... > The native way treats complex numbers as scalars of native complex > types. This solves the dimensions issue, obviously. I think it is a good idea not having access explicitly to an additional index at the

[Pdl-devel] data flow, conversion & dimensions in complex numbers

2021-03-08 Thread Ingo Schmid
Hi Ed and all, I think we are touching on two non-trivial issues here when looking at complex numbers which, I think, merits discussing. In PDL::Complex, complex numbers where vectors with size 2 of whatever real data type used. This made for awkward code if functions worked on either complex

Re: [Pdl-devel] [Pdl-general] PDL 2.027 released

2021-03-08 Thread Ingo Schmid
Hi Ed, I got this error /bin/ld: cannot find -lglut while compiling latest git master on debian. I freshly installed (apt) libopengl-perl. Installing freeglut3-dev solved the issue. Is this a pdl issue, an opgengl issue or neither? In any case it should be caught in the perl Makefile.PL stage,