[R-sig-Debian] building from source after installing Debian packages

[Ramon Diaz-Uriarte]

> Dunno -- I never installed Goto's BLAS but stuck with Atlas. With Atlas, it
> is actually much slicker, and easier, thanks to Camm's wizardry with the
> virtual packages. You can build with /any/ version of refblas, blas, atlas,
> ... and the correct dependencies are created. (There have of course been
> bugs, but it is stable now).
>
> Just try with Goto BLAS. If it creates a Depends: we cannot satisfy you
> will surely hear from us :)

OK. I'll try that.

>
> | Finally, I know no Perl at all (= even
> | surrounded by bioinformaticians I've resisted heroically all efforts to
> | coax me to learn Perl), but I assume that should be no problem, at least
> | in terms of checking that things work, etc.
>
> I sort-of remembered that from talking to you in the past.  Well, most of
> the work at the next stage will be testing, and adding / refining Depends:
> at the Debian layer (where package names may be different from what is
> encoded at CRAN).

I checked-out the cvs and I'll start playing with it this weekend. (But why  
is my non-perl-parlance so easy to remember?)

>
> Thanks for joining the team! We're glad to have you.

Thanks.

Best,

R.

>
> Cheers, Dirk

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