Unbundling ARPACK

[John W. Eaton]

On 23-Oct-2011, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:

| I've been talking face-to-face to other numerical computing people
| here at the Google Summer of Code mentor summit (people from Scipy, R,
| Scilab...) and we've decided to just fork off ARPACK and maintain the
| fork in a git repo and tell people to move it there. As part of that
| work, we should start thinking about unbundling ARPACK in Octave.

I have no problem with unbundling it if we can have a configure test
that will check to ensure that the version we are linking with does
not have the bugs we have fixed.  I'm not sure how to write those
tests.

jwe