Bug#654845: closed by Sylvestre Ledru <sylvestre at debian.org> (Re: Bug#654845: libarpack2: ARPACK should link against LAPACK 2.0, and not liblapack)

[Viral Shah]

For what it is worth, many of these patches are included here:

https://github.com/inducer/arpack

-viral



On Jan 11, 2012, at 9:18 PM, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:

> This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report
> which was filed against the libarpack2 package:
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> #654845: libarpack2: ARPACK should link against LAPACK 2.0, and not liblapack
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> It has been closed by Sylvestre Ledru <sylvestre at debian.org>.
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> From: Sylvestre Ledru <sylvestre at debian.org>
> Subject: Re: Bug#654845: libarpack2: ARPACK should link against LAPACK 2.0, and not liblapack
> Date: January 11, 2012 9:15:22 PM GMT+05:30
> To: roucaries bastien <roucaries.bastien+debian at gmail.com>
> Cc: 654845-done at bugs.debian.org, "Viral B. Shah" <viral at mayin.org>, 654845 at bugs.debian.org, control at bugs.debian.org
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> 
> forcemerge 654845 315570
> thanks
> 
> Le mercredi 11 janvier 2012 à 15:53 +0100, roucaries bastien a écrit :
>> On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 10:18 PM, Sylvestre Ledru <sylvestre at debian.org> wrote:
>>> Le vendredi 06 janvier 2012 à 01:51 -0500, Viral B. Shah a écrit :
>>>> Package: libarpack2
>>>> Severity: important
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> ARPACK needs to use LAPACK 2.0 for correctness. This will cause a
>>>> conflict with liblapack upon which it depends. See this thread on the
>>>> issue and a name mangling fix, so that LAPACK 2.0 routines can be used
>>>> in ARPACK.
>>> I don't see the issue for now.
>>> Could you produce a sample which shows the issue ?
>> 
>> Solved long time ago: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=315570
>> 
>> Sylvain feel free to force-merge if I have understood correctly
> OK.
> 
> Thanks for the information
> Sylvestre (and not Sylvain ;)
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> From: "Viral B. Shah" <viral at mayin.org>
> Subject: libarpack2: ARPACK should link against LAPACK 2.0, and not liblapack
> Date: January 6, 2012 12:21:27 PM GMT+05:30
> To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit at bugs.debian.org>
> 
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> Package: libarpack2
> Severity: important
> 
> 
> ARPACK needs to use LAPACK 2.0 for correctness. This will cause a
> conflict with liblapack upon which it depends. See this thread on the
> issue and a name mangling fix, so that LAPACK 2.0 routines can be used
> in ARPACK. The BLAS can be the standard one from the debian
> distribution.
> 
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports-bugs/2011-July/215640.html
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 6.0.3
>  APT prefers stable
>  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> 
> Versions of packages libarpack2 depends on:
> ii  libatlas3gf-3dnow [liblapack. 3.6.0-22   Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra
> ii  libblas3gf [libblas.so.3gf]   1.2-8      Basic Linear Algebra Reference imp
> ii  libc6                         2.11.2-10  Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
> ii  libgfortran3                  4.4.5-8    Runtime library for GNU Fortran ap
> ii  liblapack3gf [liblapack.so.3g 3.2.1-8    library of linear algebra routines
> pn  libopenmpi1.3                 <none>     (no description available)
> 
> Versions of packages libarpack2 recommends:
> pn  atlas3-base                   <none>     (no description available)
> 
> libarpack2 suggests no packages.
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