[gentoo-soc] [GSoC] Weekly Report: July 1 - July 7 | BLAS/LAPACK Runtime Switch

[Mo Zhou <lumin@debian.org>]

Hi list,

This week I

1. finalized the sci-libs/openblas ebuild file
   and got it merged into ::gentoo.

2. bumped version for sci-libs/blis

3. tried to build all reverse dependencies of
   sci-libs/{blas,cblas,lapack}-reference and
   virtual/{blas,cblas,lapack} to scan for
   possible regression. Result is available
   here [1].

   For some important software I also ran
   unittests, for example numpy and octave.

4. fixed dependency information for two packages
   during the build test.

5. Wrote a preliminary documentation about the
   usage and the project [2]

Next I'm going to integrate intel's math kernel
library into this mechanism. By the mid-July
we would be able to present the document to
more audience and have the mechanism more widely
tested.

Maybe I'm a little bit ahead of schedule at this
point as all targets have almost been completed.
The fact that I'm maintaining a similar mechanism
for Debian isn't the main reason for this -- It's
the (unexpected) mechanism redesign that had
reduced the amount of work. This should be fine
as the new design is much better and smoother
compared to the original one.

I talked with Benda about the problem. We think
Gentoo prefox / portage + Debian integration
may be the next problem to look into.

[1] https://github.com/cdluminate/my-overlay/blob/master/checklist.txt
[2] https://github.com/cdluminate/my-overlay/blob/master/usage.md