lapack



Camm Maguire wrote:
> Greetings!  Thanks for your reply!
>
> Raymond Toy <toy.raymond at gmail.com> writes:
>
>   
>> Camm Maguire wrote:
>>     
>>> Greetings!  Sorry about the last erroneous subject:
>>>
>>> How do I build maxima to pre-compile, load, and dump lapack?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>   
>>>       
>> Hi, Camm!
>>
>> To load lapack, use load(lapack);  this compiles lapack and loads it. 
>> Maxima doesn't really support dumping, so I'm not quite sure how to do
>> that.  Perhaps go into lisp, dump the image, copy the image over the top
>> of the existing image, and use that?
>>
>>     
>
> OK, so its a role your own?  There is no configure type option to
> preload modules?
>   
Yeah.  AFAIK, you're the first to ask for preloading modules.
>
> But what I don't know how to do is maxima's load(lapack); in terms of
> pure lisp commands.  Help here?
>   
That's easy.  If you look at lapack.mac, it loads load-lapack.lisp,
which basically run mk:oos on lapack-interface.

So just load load-lapack.lisp to compile and load lapack.

Ray