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Re: ITP: fftw-3.0.1
On Aug 11 17:55, James R. Phillips wrote:
> Although fftw3 can be built with both single and double precision versions,
> octave only uses double precision, so that is all I propose to build. Only a
> shared library (dll) will be built; no static library will be provided. I have
> verified that octave can properly detect the presence of fftw during its
> configuration, and can link with the shared library.
>
> Although it would be possible to provide headers and documentation in a
> separate package from the library, I do not propose to do so, preferring to
> stay with the simplicity of a single binary package built from a single source
> package for now.
>
> Assuming the proposal is successful and the packaging is accepted, a new
> version of octave, linked to the fftw library, would be released. The octave
> setup.hint would be modified to require fftw.
>
> Comments welcomed.
Since the package is in SuSE and Debian, just go ahead and prepare the
package. But I'm wondering why it's useful to drop the single precision
calls. Sounds like an unnecessary restriction to me.
Corinna
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