Re: ANN: Ada 2005 Math Extensions 20120712

[Ada novice <shai.lesh@gmx.com>]

On Thursday, July 12, 2012 8:44:46 PM UTC+1, Simon Wright wrote:
> 
>    In GNAT GPL 2012 and GCC 4.7, LAPACK and BLAS are no longer used, and
>    therefore aren't provided as part of GNAT on platforms where they
>    aren't natively available. This package requires LAPACK and BLAS to
>    be installed (it links with "-llapack -lblas").
> 

Thanks for the release. Someone advised me not to have GNAT GPL under linux but to have the Debian testing packages instead. I now have the linux mint debian edition. If I put the line:

deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing main

in the /etc/apt/sources.list, I will get on issuing

apt-get install gnat

the versions of gnat 4.6.3, gps 5.0.6 and libgtkada 2.24.1 among other files.

Questions:

1. One question is that whether your latest 20120712 package will work with gnat 4.6.3. Will the package use the inbuilt LAPACK and BLAS inside GNAT?

2. If I instead stick to your earlier release of the math extension package since I have gnat 4.6.3, then things should run smoothly. Is that true?

3. I am installing LAPACK liblapack3gf and BLAS libatlas3gf-base as you are aware. Will this separate installation of LAPACK and BLAS get into conflicts with the ones in GNAT when running your math extension package? Any adjustments in the path that I need to make?

Thanks.

YC