Re: BLAS and LAPACK in Ubuntu

[Matthias Klose <doko@ubuntu.com>]

Camm Maguire schrieb:
> Greetings!
> 
> Sam Halliday <sam.halliday@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm currently liaising with the author of F2J (Fortran to Java) to
>> create a JNI (Java Native Interface) so that it is possible to call
>> the BLAS/LAPACK libraries directly from within Java.
>>
>> Work on this has almost finished... however, most of the LAPACK
>> community has now moved onto LAPACK-3.1 and Ubuntu are still using
>> LAPACK-3.0. In order to cater to the lowest common denominator, this
>> is forcing me to exclude JNI support to all the new functions on all
>> operating systems.
>>
>> I was wondering if you could please update the version of LAPACK in
>> Ubuntu Gutsy to 3.1 so that I can remove this restriction on my
>> package.
>>
>> Thanks and kind regards,
>>
> 
> This is currently in progress.  I had decided to get the gfortran
> transition in first, but there appear to be portability issues which
> might take a reasonable time to fix.  I suppose a separate lapack3.1
> is in order while this is worked out.

I don't think that another source package will help us that much; yes, we can
only have one version of a package in experimental, but then you should be able
to have the other version on another site (e.g. people.debian.org).

  Matthias