From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
Subject: Re: Free AMD Core Math Library (BLAS/LAPACK) + Ada
Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2012 21:41:56 +0100
Date: 2012-07-15T21:41:56+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2a9z0n4dn.fsf@nidhoggr.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87pq7wyek7.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org
Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org> writes:
> Simon Wright writes on comp.lang.ada:
>> Thanks for that. We really needed advice from someone who knows.
>>
>> By way of experiment, I removed liblapack-dev which left
>> /usr/lib/liblapack.{a,so} pointing to the now deleted /etc/alternatives/
>> files. So I suppose the /usr/lib files get created when
>> update-alternatives is run after a new install of libfoo-dev?
>
> Correct but only if libfoo-dev participates in the alternatives system.
> If the two packages are done
> correctly:
>
> - installing the first -dev package will initialize the alternatives
> system and create /usr/lib/liblapack.so to point to
> /usr/lib/$package/liblapack.so.
>
> - installing the second -dev package should ask you whether or not to
> change the default to be the new liblapack.so or tell you that it
> updated the alternative without asking (in the output of dpkg).
>
> - uninstalling one of the -dev packages should automatically change the
> alternative to point to the remaining liblapack.so; therefore you
> should never be left with a dangling symlink.
>
> If any of these things fail to happen (and you are sure you did not
> tamper with symlinks by hand), please file a bug against the -dev
> package that you installed or removed last.
I think what I did was to uninstall the last -dev package.
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2012-07-06 18:38 Free AMD Core Math Library (BLAS/LAPACK) + Ada Ada novice
2012-07-07 13:37 ` Charly
2012-07-07 14:01 ` Ada novice
2012-07-08 6:31 ` Charly
2012-07-08 12:22 ` Ada novice
2012-07-09 18:30 ` Charly
2012-07-09 21:15 ` Ada novice
2012-07-09 21:28 ` Ada novice
2012-07-09 21:36 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2012-07-10 5:03 ` Ada novice
2012-07-10 9:35 ` Brian Drummond
2012-07-10 9:51 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2012-07-10 12:29 ` Ada novice
2012-07-10 20:02 ` Ada novice
2012-07-10 21:48 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
[not found] ` <027286e8-2436-408a-acad-c1bbf42431f8@googlegroups.com>
2012-07-11 15:48 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-07-11 16:54 ` Ada novice
2012-07-11 17:37 ` Simon Wright
2012-07-11 18:17 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2012-07-11 19:14 ` Ada novice
2012-07-11 7:49 ` Simon Wright
2012-07-11 9:47 ` Ken Thomas
2012-07-11 19:30 ` Simon Wright
2012-07-11 19:52 ` Ada novice
2012-07-11 21:50 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2012-07-12 6:34 ` Ada novice
2012-07-12 8:38 ` Simon Wright
2012-07-13 19:38 ` Ada novice
2012-07-14 14:25 ` Ada novice
2012-07-15 2:20 ` John B. Matthews
2012-07-15 7:41 ` Ada novice
2012-07-15 11:25 ` Simon Wright
2012-07-15 13:22 ` Ada novice
2012-07-15 14:59 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-07-15 15:06 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-07-15 15:09 ` Simon Wright
2012-07-15 16:05 ` Ada novice
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2012-07-15 16:47 ` Simon Wright
2012-07-15 17:03 ` Ada novice
2012-07-15 17:42 ` Ludovic Brenta
2012-07-15 18:41 ` Simon Wright
2012-07-15 20:06 ` Ludovic Brenta
2012-07-15 20:41 ` Simon Wright [this message]
2012-07-15 21:24 ` Ada novice
2012-07-15 22:20 ` Simon Wright
2012-07-16 7:56 ` Ada novice
2012-07-16 9:27 ` Simon Wright
2012-07-16 11:15 ` Ada novice
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2012-07-16 11:36 ` Simon Wright
2012-07-16 13:08 ` Ada novice
2012-07-16 19:51 ` Ludovic Brenta
[not found] ` <cfd19c01-91e7-4e01-b2e8-e89f6c18764e@googlegroups.com>
2012-07-16 21:58 ` Ludovic Brenta
2012-07-16 22:14 ` Simon Wright
2012-07-24 13:09 ` Ada novice
2012-07-24 13:54 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2012-07-24 14:18 ` Simon Wright
2012-07-24 14:59 ` Ada novice
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2012-07-24 15:11 ` Simon Wright
[not found] ` <09au08pi7740v52v9237e79om6fpm2nllv@invalid.netcom.com>
2012-07-25 5:04 ` Ada novice
2012-07-24 15:19 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2012-07-24 15:27 ` Ada novice
2012-07-24 15:40 ` Ada novice
2012-07-24 16:41 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2012-07-24 17:36 ` Ada novice
2012-07-24 22:13 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2012-07-25 5:36 ` Ada novice
2012-07-25 6:13 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2012-07-25 8:56 ` Ada novice
2012-07-25 9:04 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2012-07-25 9:16 ` Ada novice
2012-07-25 9:23 ` Martin
2012-07-25 11:33 ` Ada novice
2012-07-25 9:26 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-07-25 11:37 ` Ada novice
2012-07-25 15:37 ` Ada novice
2012-07-25 17:04 ` Ada novice
2012-07-26 19:02 ` Ada novice
2012-07-11 21:39 ` Simon Wright
2012-07-10 9:32 ` Simon Wright
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