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Re: lapack 3.0 (OpenGL and ncurses maintainers please take note)
On Jun 29 22:40, James R. Phillips wrote:
> --- Charles Wilson wrote:
> > FWIW, I think the /opt tree is PRECISELY the right thing to do with
> > regards to the un-optimized lapack DLLs. With PATH manipulations,
> > binaries like octave.exe can find the "appropriate" lapack DLLs --
> > unoptimized if /opt/lapack/bin is the only dir in PATH containing them;
> > optimized if the local administrator installs optimized versions
> > somewhere (/usr/local/bin?) and takes affirmative steps to ensure that
> > /usr/local/bin precedes /opt/lapack/bin in $PATH.
>
> Are there any other official packages that install to /opt? I don't have an
> /opt at all in my cygwin directory tree. I am reluctant to create a new
> top-level directory just for part of one package.
>
> Not that this couldn't work. What were down to is just a preference.
> Somewhere in opt would work; so would /usr/lib/lapack.
I'd opt for /opt (sorry for the pun). Bigger and more complex packages
are better served by getting their own /opt subdir in the long run.
Charles is asking for /opt for a while now anyway. Perhaps the lapack
package would be a good start.
Corinna
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