From jamatos at fc.up.pt  Tue Sep 20 17:45:54 2005
From: jamatos at fc.up.pt (=?UTF-8?B?Sm9zw6k=?= Matos)
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 16:45:54 +0100
Subject: [Rd] looks in liblapack.a not liblapack.so
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Martyn Plummer wrote:

> Fedora have just split off a separate lapack-devel package containing
> the static library and the symlink liblapack.so.  (Mandrake/Mandriva has
> been doing this for some time. I don't know about SuSE).  The up2date
> service will recognize that it needs to update lapack, but I guess that
> it won't install lapack-devel, as it doesn't know you need it.

  You are right.

> It might have been better to do this in the next release, rather than as
> an update to FC4, but there you go. Better install lapack-devel
> manually.

  lapack belongs to Extras and not to Core. Extras is a rolling release.

  The change was necessary to allow atlas to compile and interact with
lapack.

  atlas is on the queue to Fedora Extras, it is in the review phase now.

-- 
Jos? Ab?lio



[Rd] looks in liblapack.a not liblapack.so
=?UTF-8?B?Sm9zw6k=?= Matos