[Slackbuilds-users] lapack

[Donald Allen]

2011/5/20 Audrius Kažukauskas <audrius at neutrino.lt>

> On Thu, 2011-05-19 at 14:27:19 -0400, Donald Allen wrote:
> > For me, it's no longer a problem; I got it built. My concern is just that
> > others might trip over this and waste time figuring out what I already
> did.
> > Maybe put a note on the page alerting people that the version has
> changed,
> > the slackbuild awaits updating, and in the meantime, folks can build the
> > package with
> >
> > env VERSION=3.3.1 lapack.Slackbuild
> >
> > ??
>
> I think that's what MD5SUM is for -- to alert that something has changed
> in the source tarball.
>

Yes. But if one checked the md5sum (which I admit I did not) and saw a
mis-match, you still would have needed to do some detective work to figure
out what was going on.

>
> Though I'm not sure why the current download link without version number
> in the file name was used at all (which was the source of confusion for
> Donald and probably will be for others).  After quick look in LAPACK
> website I've found the one containing version number:
>
> http://www.netlib.org/lapack/lapack-3.3.0.tgz
>
> Perhaps upstream didn't provide it in the past?
>

Good work, leading to Robby's fix, which should prevent a recurrence. Thank
you.

/Don

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