Definitions of LAPACK



On 5/2/07, Raymond Toy <raymond.toy at ericsson.com> wrote:

>     Detlef> I understood correctly the fortran source is compiled to lisp and you
>     Detlef> integrated this?! Wouldn't it be good to have this process within the
>     Detlef> maxima build process? But maybe I am wrong and it is linked to the libs.
>
> Yes, the Fortran code is converted to Lisp via f2cl.  This is done
> just once and the Lisp code is checked in.  I guess we do it this way
> so that maxima doesn't need to have f2cl.

For my part I think this is the best arrangement.

FWIW
Robert