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Re: More on binary packages and FFTW/ATLAS
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Dirk Eddelbuettel |
Subject: |
Re: More on binary packages and FFTW/ATLAS |
Date: |
Fri, 20 Feb 2004 20:20:41 -0600 |
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On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 07:26:15PM -0600, Quentin Spencer wrote:
> Paul Kienzle wrote:
>
> >>We could do something similar, where Octave would not actually be
> >>linked with a Lapack or Blas library, but would dlopen them and look
> >>up functions as needed (or at startup, to fill in a table) and then
> >>call the linear algebra functions via pointers. This way, it would
> >>be easy to switch from one linear algebra package to another, perhaps
> >>even at run time if you really wanted to do that. Should we make a
> >>change like this?
> >
> >I see this as more of an install time than a run time issue. No need
> >to complicate the code when the os runtime already supports finding
> >and loading dynamic libraries.
>
> However, there's one argument for runtime detection I can think of. If
> octave and associated libraries are maintained centrally on a network
> file system for a group of users who may have different hardware types,
> it would be nice to have libraries available for all hardware types and
> have applications such as octave detect which one they should load.
If I recall correctly, and I'm a bit fuzzy on the details, Camm has that
covered too. You may just want to install Debian on a scrap partition and
look at what he has done to see what you could do for FC.
Dirk
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- Re: binary packages, (continued)
- Re: binary packages, Per Persson, 2004/02/18
- More on binary packages and FFTW/ATLAS, Quentin Spencer, 2004/02/19
- Re: More on binary packages and FFTW/ATLAS, Per Persson, 2004/02/19
- Re: More on binary packages and FFTW/ATLAS, Dirk Eddelbuettel, 2004/02/19
- Re: More on binary packages and FFTW/ATLAS, Dmitri A. Sergatskov, 2004/02/19
- Re: More on binary packages and FFTW/ATLAS, John W. Eaton, 2004/02/20
- Re: More on binary packages and FFTW/ATLAS, Per Persson, 2004/02/20
- Re: More on binary packages and FFTW/ATLAS, John W. Eaton, 2004/02/20
- Re: More on binary packages and FFTW/ATLAS, Paul Kienzle, 2004/02/20
- Re: More on binary packages and FFTW/ATLAS, Quentin Spencer, 2004/02/20
- Re: More on binary packages and FFTW/ATLAS,
Dirk Eddelbuettel <=
- Re: More on binary packages and FFTW/ATLAS, Paul Kienzle, 2004/02/21
- Re: More on binary packages and FFTW/ATLAS, John W. Eaton, 2004/02/25
- editor for Octave, Hugo Coolens, 2004/02/21
- Re: editor for Octave, Willem Atsma, 2004/02/21
- Re: editor for Octave, robert Macy, 2004/02/21
- Re: editor for Octave, Christoph Dalitz, 2004/02/21
- Re: editor for Octave xemacs - cua, Joerg Schreiber, 2004/02/23
- Re: editor for Octave scite- german version, Joerg Schreiber, 2004/02/23
RE: binary packages, THOMAS Paul Richard, 2004/02/16