Re: Uninstalling windows octave destroyed my cygwin installation!

[John W. Eaton]

On  1-Dec-2003, Paul Kienzle <address@hidden> wrote:

| What's a pain to maintain is the various flavours of atlas.
| I built an LAPACK+BLAS dll with just Z and D functions,
| but we won't be able to replace XERBLAS on the fly
| within it since dll linkage needs to be resolved at link time
| rather than at run time.

If we are building the blas package, then we can modify the xerbla
function to do what we want.  For example, we can have it check a
global function pointer, and call that function instead of stopping
execution.  If the function pointer is 0 (the default), then we just
have it exit.

jwe



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