On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Robert Dodier wrote:
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>> Robert> the final image. Then load(lapack) would just load the lapack binaries
>> Robert> instead of compiling them.
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>
> 15 minutes?! I think users are going to be unhappy about that.
> I know I will be.
This seems to be only an issue for developers.
At the risk of making a stupid suggestion ( I do that all the time
anyway), why not make a configure option for these long compiling
packages?
Thus, one could have a default and
./configure --with-lapack
or
./configure --without-lapack
-sen
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