Opinions on packaging ATLAS (for the x86 architecture)

[Tony Nelson]

On 09-09-26 08:32:45, Kevin Kofler wrote:
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> Of course the root of the problem is ATLAS's lack of support for 
> runtime CPU feature detection ...

Presumably that could be added to the Fedora package as a patch.  It's 
SMOP to check the CPU and load the proper library, if someone who knew 
how were to do it.  Other distros might also use such a patch.  Then 
there would be only one package per arch, containing all variants.

> ... (The ATLAS developers expect everybody to compile a tuned ATLAS 
> for their own machine and show only very limited interest in binary 
> packaging.)

I haven't been able to get that to work [1], but it does take over 3 
hours to fail.  I don't think most users can be expected to build their 
own ATLAS.

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=525818

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