fftw3 and octave

Charles Wilson cygwin@cwilson.fastmail.fm
Tue Apr 1 23:56:00 GMT 2008


Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Apr  1 00:02, Charles Wilson wrote:
>> So, we usually don't allow software in the distro that links against 
>> libaries that AREN'T part of the distro -- unless you take special care to 
>> distribute also those EXACT sources as part of your fftw3-src package.

s/fftw3/octave/

>> I'll leave this to Corinna and cgf to decide, but it seems to me that 
>> either:
>>
>> (1) you must rebuild your official package without reliance on Qhull, Hdf5, 
>> and qlpk/SuiteSparse, or
>> (2) include the EXACT Qhull/Hdf5/qlpk/SuiteSparse source code tarballs 
>> within the fftw3-src tarball

s/fftw3/octave/

>> (3) you [or someone else] must ITP these packages
> 
> 100% correct.

Well, except that when I said "fftw3-src" I should have said 
"octave-src". But it's mmot anyway, because Marco is pursuing option #3.

--
Chuck



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