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Re: [GSoC] BLAS/LAPACK Ecosystem Enhancement for Debian



Hi Drew,

Le mardi 12 mai 2020 à 01:48 +0800, Drew Parsons a écrit :

> 2)  The naming of the alternatives links is not intuitive, marked 
> arch-specifically as libblas.so-x86_64-linux-gnu, 
> libblas.so.3-x86_64-linux-gnu, etc.
> Normally it would just be libblas.so, as in "update-alternatives 
> --config libblas.so", or better still "update-alternatives --config 
> blas".
> Is it really necessary to include the arch in the alternative name?

This is necessary for multiarch, see #770290.

> 2b) A separate thing to look into is whether the alternative for 
> libblas.so.3 can be slaved on to libblas.so (or vice versa) so they 
> don't have to be configured separately. If there's likely to be a 
> libblas.so.4 then it makes more sense to keep them separate, but
> it's 
> been libblas.so.3 since the 1980s I believe.   They are different 
> packages so it's not so straightforward to slave-link them to one 
> another.  But the HDF5 maintainer recently found a way to do it (to
> link 
> hdf5-mpi.pc against the preferred MPI alternative, see 
> libhdf5-openmpi-dev.postinst)

I think the difficulty here is that libblas.so and libblas.so.3 live in
different packages (-dev versus shared library).

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