Robert Dodier wrote:
> On 6/18/08, Raymond Toy (RT/EUS) <raymond.toy at ericsson.com> wrote:
>
>> > It strikes me that compilation of source code is properly part of the
>> > installation process.
>>
>> For the core parts of maxima, I would agree. However, this is a share
>> package, so it's not so clear to me.
>
> Let's just move lapack into src and make it part of the standard build.
On second thought, if you really want to do this, I won't object.
However, I think this just works around the problem. I think we need to
figure out how to handle this. We won't always want to suck everything
into the standard build.
>
>> Since the lapack code is compiled using mk:defsys, we can easily modify
>> it to save the binaries in some temp directory.
>
> This is problematic -- $HOME is not shared between users and /tmp
> is erased automatically after a while. Is there a directory which is
> shared, user-writable, and permanent?
I don't really see what's wrong with $HOME. Granted, you don't get to
share the compiled stuff between users, but that doesn't seem so bad to
me. I may not even want to use someone else's compiled version anyway.
Maybe I don't trust them. :-)
Ray