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

[Soeren Sonnenburg]

On Tue, 2010-02-23 at 15:47 +0100, Sylvestre Ledru wrote:
> 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

Ahh great, then please please do it :-)

The way it is now - it is just broken. E.g. libcblas.so will never
appear in /usr/lib and it would require evil hacks in applications to
fix the linker path to /usr/lib/atlas-xxx ...

Soeren
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