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Re: [ITP] R-2.14.1-1
On Feb 10 10:52, marco atzeri wrote:
> On 2/10/2012 10:11 AM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
> >On Fri, 2012-02-10 at 07:30 +0100, marco atzeri wrote:
> >>On 2/10/2012 4:37 AM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
> >>>Furthermore, is there a reason you use libRblas/libRlapack instead of
> >>>the system lapack libraries?
> >>
> >>A tough discussion with R developers. They consider the standard Blas
> >>crippled as non correctly handling NaN.
> >>
> >>For what I saw they have the tendency to make their own version of any
> >>lib that does not fit on their exact expectation, for the same reason
> >>they do not consider libtool and have a very unusual build.
> >
> >Bundling libs is usually a bad idea, and as Debian, Fedora, and Gentoo
> >all seem to use the system lapack, I'd suggest to do so as well (as done
> >in Ports).
> >
> >
> >Yaakov
> >
>
> the request was a bit strong
> https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2011-November/062565.html
>
> It seems R is assuming math for NaN is a must.
Question: Are the lapack packages for Debian, Fedora, and Gentoo less
broken than the Cygwin ones? If so, why? Is that just a version
problem which can be fixed by updating the package or is it due to the
underlying implementation of some math functions in newlib?
Corinna
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