Re: ANN: Ada 2005 Math Extensions 20120712

[Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>]

Ada novice <shai.lesh@gmx.com> writes:

> 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?

I only have Debian 6 here (squeeze?), and GCC 4.4.5 doesn't have inbuilt
LAPACK or BLAS, which would be in libgnalasup.a. Instead, it says
"-lgnala -llapack -lblas' and picks up liblapack.so.3gf, libblas.so.3gf
(and libgfortran.so.3).

I expect Debian testing will do the same.

I tested 20120712 with GNAT GPL 2011 and 2012 on Mac OS X and Debian 6,
with FSF GCC 4.6 and 4.7 on Mac OS X, and with Debian GCC 4.4.5 on
Debian 6. As you know, it doesn't work on Windows because we can't find
a suitable liblapack.dll, libblas.dll.

> 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?

I would think so.

> 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?

As I said above, I don't believe that GNAT on Debian has inbuilt LAPACK,
BLAS.