Re: compiling atlas2 on athlon
Yes, I realized I hadn't installed expect after an email from Rik
Renich. The package built just fine.
Thanks everyone.
On 14 Sep 2000, Camm Maguire wrote:
> Greetings! I maintain the atlas Debian package, so I hope I can help
> here!
>
> The build process depends on 'expect', an interpreter that comes with
> Debian, but may not be installed on your system. Just do a 'apt-get
> install expect5.24' or equivalent, and then 'apt-get -b source atlas'
> should work just fine. (It will take forever, though!)
> (config.expect runs the expect interpreter, and *that* is the command
> that is not being found.)
>
> I'll be adding a Build-Depends entry soon.
>
> Please let me know if you have any comments/suggestions for atlas on
> Debian.
>
> Take care,
>
> "Matthew D. Fulkerson" <mdfulk@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu> writes:
>
> > Hi,
> > I've been trying to compile the debian atlas2 source into a .deb
> > file. When running dpkg-buildpackage, the process eventually fails. Here
> > is the last few lines of output.
> >
> > echo ../liblapack.a
> > ../liblapack.a
> > make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/atlas-3.0/lapack-3.0/SRC'
> > make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/atlas-3.0/lapack-3.0'
> > touch lapack-stamp
> > dh_testdir
> > chmod +x debian/config.expect
> > debian/config.expect
> > make: debian/config.expect: Command not found
> > make: *** [startup-stamp] Error 127
> > Build command 'cd atlas-3.0 && dpkg-buildpackage -b -uc' failed.
> > E: Child process failed
> >
> > I checked the atlas-3.0/debian directory, and config.expect is there and
> > executable. But even typing ./config.expect gives the error message
> > bash: ./config.expect: No such file or directory
> > (incidently, I tried building gv as a check, and dpkg-buildpackage failed
> > there also. However I was able to build nano)
> >
> >
> > Alternatively, I can compile the atlas2 source just following the INSTALL
> > directions. But I don't know how to use the libraries. I'm using lapack
> > with a command line like
> >
> > g77 program.f -llapack -lblas
> >
> > My plan was to do as the README.Debian documentation
> > suggested and set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to /usr/lib/atlas, once I had made the
> > athlon optimized libraries.
> >
> >
> > Any suggestions would be appreciated. Sorry if this is not the list to
> > ask, but it is the only place I could find any dialogue on atlas.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Matt Fulkerson
> >
> >
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