[Rd] looks in liblapack.a not liblapack.so

[José Matos]

Martyn Plummer wrote:

> Fedora have just split off a separate lapack-devel package containing
> the static library and the symlink liblapack.so.  (Mandrake/Mandriva has
> been doing this for some time. I don't know about SuSE).  The up2date
> service will recognize that it needs to update lapack, but I guess that
> it won't install lapack-devel, as it doesn't know you need it.

  You are right.

> It might have been better to do this in the next release, rather than as
> an update to FC4, but there you go. Better install lapack-devel
> manually.

  lapack belongs to Extras and not to Core. Extras is a rolling release.

  The change was necessary to allow atlas to compile and interact with
lapack.

  atlas is on the queue to Fedora Extras, it is in the review phase now.

-- 
José Abílio