Re: [gentoo-science] lapack 3.0?

["Matthew R. Lee" <gentoo@matthewlee.org>]

On Sunday 25 February 2007 21:38, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
> Matthew R. Lee wrote:
> > On Saturday 24 February 2007 18:50, Patrice Beaud wrote:
> >> Matthew R. Lee a écrit :
> >>> I've just installed the science overlay because I want to use rkward
> >>> However when I try "emerge -pv rkward" it tells me there are no ebuilds
> >>> to satisfy ">=sci-libs/lapack-3.0"
> >>> This is the first time I've used an overlay, so is this a bug in the
> >>> ebuild of rkward or am I missing something?
> >>>
> >>> Matt
> >>
> >> It seems like the ebuild is outdated... (Note: I didn't know however
> >> RKward existed. Thank you!)
> >>
> >>  I make a:
> >> cp -a /usr/portage/local/layman/science/sci-mathematics/rkward/
> >> /usr/local/portage/sci-mathematics/
> >>
> >> Change the name of the ebuild from rkward-0.3.7_pre1.ebuild to
> >> rkward-0.4.6.ebuild.
> >>
> >>
> >> Modify the ebuild:
> >>
> >> 10c10
> >> < SRC_URI="http://rkward.sourceforge.net/temp/rkward-0.3.7pre1.tar.gz"
> >> ---
> >>
> >>  > SRC_URI="mirror://sourceforge/${PN}/${P}.tar.gz"
> >>
> >> 17c17
> >> < DEPEND=">=sci-libs/lapack-3.0
> >> ---
> >>
> >>  > DEPEND=">=virtual/lapack-3.0
> >>
> >> 27c27
> >> <       mv rkward-0.3.7pre1 rkward-0.3.7_pre1 || die
> >> ---
> >>
> >>  > #     mv rkward-0.3.7pre1 rkward-0.3.7_pre1 || die
> >>
> >> run
> >> ebuild /usr/local/portage/sci-mathematics/rkward/rkward-0.4.6.ebuild
> >> digest
> >>
> >>
> >> I started emerging and it stops with a sandbox violation:
> >> --------------------------- ACCESS VIOLATION SUMMARY
> >> ---------------------------
> >> LOG FILE =
> >> "/var/log/sandbox/sandbox-sci-mathematics_-_rkward-0.4.6-14654.log"
> >>
> >> open_wr:   /usr/qt/3/etc/settings/.qtrc.lock
> >> open_wr:   /usr/qt/3/etc/settings/.qtrc.lock
> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>--- -----
> >>
> >> I continue without sandbox... :-(
> >> RKward was installed and it works.
> >>
> >>
> >> Thank you (I can try R) and Good luck !
> >>    Patrice
> >
> > Patrice,
> > Thanks for the help.  I made some modifications to the ebuild and I too
> > now have rkward-0.4.6 running.  I didn't encounter the same problem with
> > the sand box, which is just as well as I don't know how to run an ebuild
> > without the sandbox :-)
> > Given that this ebuild is a. out of date, and b. doesn't work.  Is there
> > anyone maintaining it?  I would volunteer, but I have zero experience of
> > putting ebuilds together.  If someone who knows what they are doing was
> > available on the end of the email to answer my (bleedin' obvious
> > questions, I'm just a marine ecologist :-)) I'd give it a go.  I'd like
> > to learn how to create ebuilds as there are other packages in addition to
> > rkward that I'd like to see in the tree, like xtides
> >
> > Matt
>
> I'm a little curious about something ... does "rkward" actually require
> an external Lapack, or is this optional? The reason I ask is that R
> itself *contains* a copy of Lapack, and the R developers have deprecated
> linking against external Lapack libraries!
>
I don't know.  But the ebuild was for version 0.3.7.  Back then maybe it did 
need lapack and now it doesn't for the reasons you've given.

Matt
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