Re: Status of gfortran transition
On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 04:11:18PM -0400, Camm Maguire wrote:
> Kumar Appaiah <akumar@ee.iitm.ac.in> writes:
>
> > > Just uploaded refblas3_1.2-9 to experimental. Hope to get lapack and
> > > atlas in in the next few days.
> >
> > I just had a look at it. While it seems OK, I definitely have to crib
> > about the diff.gz. If you observe, it has many lines of the following
> > form:
> >
> > --- refblas3-1.2.orig/src/cgbmv.f
> > +++ refblas3-1.2/src/cgbmv.f
> > @@ -142,7 +142,7 @@
> > LOGICAL LSAME
> > EXTERNAL LSAME
> > * .. External Subroutines ..
> > - EXTERNAL XERBLA
> > + EXTERNAL XERBLI
> > * .. Intrinsic Functions ..
> > INTRINSIC CONJG, MAX, MIN
> > * ..
> > I would really request you to move to a patching system like quilt or
> > dpatch in order to isolate the differences to diff files, as that
> > makes things very easy to handle, isolating the upstream from the
> > Debian packaging.
> >
>
> Thanks for the suggestion! I heartily agree -- I am just so old that
> I've wound up implementing an analogous facility in terms of makefile
> rules (aka lapack debian/rules, not here of course), and always resist
> learning anything new :-), especially that might be replaced in short
> order. What is th 10 year solution?
Well, I volunteer to take this task up next week, and will attempt to
separate patches into logical units, and use quilt for the process.
I have one more query. While the orig.tar.gz is 691K, the diff.gz is
340K, almost half of that size! Is this all right, or are there some
redundant things sitting there?
Thanks, and sorry for troubling you.
Kumar
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