ports/100330: [patch] Make it possible to build math/octave w/o math/atlas.

Mon Sep 18 12:10:32 UTC 2006

The following reply was made to PR ports/100330; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: trasz at pin.if.uz.zgora.pl
To: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
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Subject: Re: ports/100330: [patch] Make it possible to build math/octave w/o math/atlas.
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 14:10:29 +0200

 On 0715T1744, Thierry Thomas wrote:
 > On Sat 15 jul 06 at 17:41:23 +0200, trasz at pin.if.uz.zgora.pl <trasz at pin.if.uz.zgora.pl>
 >  wrote:
 > > On 0715T1054, Thierry Thomas wrote:
 > > > > >Description:
 > > > > Right now math/octave depends on math/atlas, which takes enormous time
 > > > > to build and is marked NO_PACKAGE, making quick installation of octave impossible.
 > > > > This patch should make it possible to build package for octave.
 > > > 
 > > > A better fix would be to use blas from math/blas. Check the other ports
 > > > which test if WITH_ATLAS is defined and set BLAS_LIB accordingly.
 > > 
 > > Thanks.  What do you think about this one?
 > 
 > It seems fine (but I have not tested it).

 What about this patch?  (Yes, I can take maintainership if neccesary.)