Re: Help installing testing tarball from 25 July 2007 on red hat ent. linux 5, amd64

[LUK ShunTim]

Quentin Spencer wrote:
> LUK ShunTim wrote:
>> Quentin Spencer wrote:
>>  
>>> I don't know what's causing your compilation problems, but I thought
>>> I'd point out that the Fedora project has started a project called
>>> Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL), which provides packages
>>> from Fedora compiled for RHEL (and its derivatives like CentOS). In
>>> the last couple of days, a build of octave-2.9.13 has been released
>>> into the EPEL 5 repository, complete with all of the sparse bells and
>>> whistles. You can find more information on EPEL and how to install
>>> packages from it at:
>>>
>>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL
>>>
>>> I hope this helps.
>>>
>>> Quentin
>>>
>>>     
>>
>> Sorry if this is (slightly) OT. Is it built with atlas enabled?
>>   
> 
> No, but I can work on getting atlas into EPEL. The Fedora version of
> atlas, like the Debian version, is meant to be a drop-in replacement for
> blas and lapack. You could try rebuilding the Fedora SRPM and I think it
> would likely work.
> 
> Quentin
> 
> 

It would be nice to have atlas in EPEL.

Thanks very much,
ST
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