Re: Octave 2.9.0 available for ftp

[David Bateman]

Quentin Spencer wrote:

> David Bateman wrote:
>
> > On another point I can't see a UMFPACK rpm anywhere, and so if there 
> > is someone who won't to make such a package, I'm sure there'll be 
> > lots of octave users that would be very happy.
>
>
> One more thing: does anyone know where I can find the build scripts 
> that are used to create the Debian packages for this? That could be 
> very helpful to me as a starting point to package this as an RPM.
>
> -Quentin
Quentin,

I'm not sure how the debian UMFPACK stuff is built, but I hope it was a 
dependency on atlas and doesn't have "CONFIG = DNBLAS" in Make.include 
or Make.linux, as these disable the dense kernel operations in UMFPACK 
and solving sparse matrices will be slow....

Cheers
David

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