Re: Addition of ITSOL to MXE.

[marco atzeri]

Il 6/29/2013 6:12 AM, c. ha scritto:
> On 29 Jun 2013, at 01:24, Kai Torben Ohlhus <address@hidden> wrote:
> > I like your package. The resulting shared and static libraries from your modified ITSOL seem to be 
> > working for Ubuntu, too. I replaced my system libraries with those from ".libs" without 
> > noticing any changes in using ITSOL. Would you recommend me to use your ITSOL-package in general or 
> > do you have any Cygwin specific options in it? I didn't make use of "make install". 
> > According to your mail, it doesn't copy the files to my FS as the old debian packages did. Can you 
> > modify this setting?
> >
> > Kai
>
> Marco, Kai,
>
> We don't want to be maintaining a separate version of the
> ITSOL distribution, so, before going too far in patching ITSOL
> I think it is worth discussing your changes with the upstream
> maintainers so that they are aware of what is going on and can
> consider making the changes in their package directly.

Hi Carlo
That was the idea. I was just on early test phase before submitting
to upstream.
Usually if it works on cygwin, it works on every platform;
but a bit of testing is needed any way as I could have missed
some details.

Most of the autoconf/automake structure is taken from arpack-ng
and adapted to itsol.


> Ruipeng,
>
> It seems that the ITSOL bulding and linking process needs to
> be changed a little bit to improve portability, in particular
> (but not only) to windows systems. Would you mind considering
> to include those changes in your distribution of ITSOL?

the full patch and source test package are here
http://matzeri.altervista.org/works/itsol/

The source change is minimal, I used Kai's one, and only due to
double function declarations that prevent building a shared lib.
A upstream review is needed for possible alternative implementation.

The full patch is large as autoconf/automake structure includes
the m4 macro for detecting blas and lapack on several platforms.
I also renamed some comments files that are not more fully applicable
like README_INSTALL to README_INSTALL.orig.


> c.

Regards
Marco Atzeri

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