Re: [gentoo-science] lapack 3.0?

["M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@cesmail.net>]

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 It seems like the ebuild is outdated...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 Given that this ebuild is a. out of date, and b. doesn't work.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!

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