Re: ARPACK sources removed from Octave

[Rik]

On 01/05/2012 07:15 AM, Ben Abbott wrote:
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> Using arpack from macports, I built and tested using stable.

Everything works as expected.



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https://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk/dports/math/arpack/Portfile



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> For reference, Macports builds arpack using the sources from

Scilab.



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> http://forge.scilab.org/index.php/p/arpack-ng



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> Ben

The test works correctly on Kubuntu 10.04.  Using the default ARPACK installed by the package manager causes the test to fail and Octave is built without eigs support.  I downloaded arpack-ng and installed that in /usr/local and the configure test then passes and successfully builds with eigs support.  Owing to the vagaries of ldconfig I needed to remove the package manager version of ARPACK before this would work which is advice we might want to pass along.

Should we make a note in the NEWS file that ARPACK, which was added in the 3.4.X series, has now been removed?  Should we point users to arpack-ng until the distributions get around to building a good copy of ARPACK?

--Rik