Re: add ARPACK to the Octave sources?

[John W. Eaton]

On 28-Jan-2011, Jarno Rajahalme wrote:

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| On Jan 28, 2011, at 15:10 , ext John W. Eaton wrote:
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| > I have a series of patches ready to commit that will
| > 
| >    * add ARPACK to libcruft
| > 
| >    * remove configure checks and macros for ARPACK from the build
| >      system, add a note to the build system, fix install.txi, etc.
| > 
| >    * fix a declaration problem with ETIME in an ARPACK function
| > 
| >    * apply David's patch
| > 
| >    * fix an uninitialized memory problem I discovered with valgrind
| >      while doing some testing
| > 
| > Does anyone object to making these changes before 3.4?
| > 
| > If not, then I will check these changes in.
| > 
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| John, while you are at it, please check that these patches are in there. I 
recall making these based on errata on the web, likely on the arpack site.
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That looks the same as the patch that was proposed by David Bateman,
here:

https://mailman.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/octave-maintainers/2006-November/005005.html

That's the patch I referred to above in "apply David's patch".

jwe