[Pkg-scicomp-devel] new packages in the repository

[Ondrej Certik]

> 3) slepc
>
> The package compiles, but:
>
>   * uscan doesn't work, because it is not easy to download the tarball
> from the upstream pages (you need to agree to the license first).
> Don't know how to fix it.
>   * the upstream makefile is broken, it produces "libslepc.", the fix
> is commented out in debian/rules, needs to be adapted and polished

Done.

>   * after fixing the above, the examples compile and link, but
> segfault. Find the problem and fix it the problem is with moving the
> libraries to /usr/lib, because when I install SLEPc locally, it works

Fixed by patching the sources of SLEPc.

>   * when the above things are fixed, make SLEPc build with arpack, and
> possibly other solvers in debian/main (LAPACK and others, see below),
> see the commented line in debian/rules for configuring with arpack

SLEPc debian/rules is prepared to compile against arpack (the correct
configure command is commented out). The arpack package needs to be
fixed in order to produce /usr/lib/libparpack.a. When I put there that
file by hand, SLEPc builded perfectly against arpack.

I am done for today and will continue on Wednesday or Thursday. If
someone has time to look into the arpack to generate the parpack.a, it
would help a lot.

Thanks,
Ondrej