Bug#598638: lapack: update-alternatives breaks application linking

[Francesco Poli]

On Sun, 15 Jan 2012 14:31:29 +0100 Sylvestre Ledru wrote:

> Le samedi 14 janvier 2012 à 19:16 +0100, Francesco Poli a écrit :
[...]
> > Could you please clarify what you suggest, and explicitly spell out the
> > commands I should issue to switch to the reference implementations, and
> > the commands to switch back to the ATLAS implementations?
> > I would like to minimize the risk of breaking my production system!
> Well, if you are looking for performance, continue to use your "pure atlas configuration" (and you could even drop
> blas from your system)

I am afraid that I won't be able to do otherwise, until this bug gets
fixed...

>  
> 
> > 
> > BTW, according to my original plan, I wanted to also test
> > libatlas-core2sse3-dev, but the optimized packages have been dropped,
> > as stated in the README.Debian file.
[...]
> > Could you please explain?
> Sure. I am writing this email offline. I cannot point you to my original
> email explaining this decision. However, here are some of the reasons:
[...]
> I hope you understand our choose.

Yes, I now understand: as unfortunate as it can be, now I see why a
really optimized ATLAS has to be built on the box where it will be
used...

Thanks a lot for clarifying.

Bye.

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