lapack 3.0 (OpenGL and ncurses maintainers please take note)

[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 -- 
> > unoptimized if /opt/lapack/bin is the only dir in PATH containing them; 
> > optimized if the local administrator installs optimized versions 
> > somewhere (/usr/local/bin?) and takes affirmative steps to ensure that 
> > /usr/local/bin precedes /opt/lapack/bin in $PATH.
> 
> 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 that this couldn't work.  What were down to is just a preference. 
> Somewhere in opt would work; so would /usr/lib/lapack.

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.


Corinna

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