[Pkg-scicomp-devel] Bug#571108: Bug#571108: libatlas-*-dev - .so files need to be present in /usr/lib/

[Sylvestre Ledru]

Le mardi 23 février 2010 à 15:36 +0100, Soeren Sonnenburg a écrit :

> all (common) .h files are rightly contained in libatlas-dev, however the
> .so files contained in e.g. libatlas-base-dev are all in /usr/lib/atlas-base/ and thus cannot be found by the dynamic linker (on link time).
> 
> please use the /etc/alternatives mechanism to make the user select which
> atlas version should be present in /usr/lib/
Glad you are proposing that. It is something I was thinking to do but I
don't want to break all blas/lapack libraries...
You will find some information on the thread started by Adam Powell.
http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-science@lists.debian.org/msg03692.html

> this would also make the ld.so.conf.d plug unnecessary
Which is believe is deprecated in the Debian Policy.

Sylvestre