Re: ITP: fftw-3.0.1

["Gerrit P. Haase" <gerrit at familiehaase dot de>]

Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Aug 11 17:55, James R. Phillips wrote:
>
> > Although fftw3 can be built with both single and double precision versions,
> > octave only uses double precision, so that is all I propose to build.  Only a
> > shared library (dll) will be built; no static library will be provided.  I have
> > verified that octave can properly detect the presence of fftw during its
> > configuration, and can link with the shared library.
> >
> > Although it would be possible to provide headers and documentation in a
> > separate package from the library, I do not propose to do so, preferring to
> > stay with the simplicity of a single binary package built from a single source
> > package for now.
> >
> > Assuming the proposal is successful and the packaging is accepted, a new
> > version of octave, linked to the fftw library, would be released.  The octave
> > setup.hint would be modified to require fftw.
> >
> > Comments welcomed.
>
>
> Since the package is in SuSE and Debian, just go ahead and prepare the
> package.   But I'm wondering why it's useful to drop the single precision
> calls.  Sounds like an unnecessary restriction to me.

I also suggest to go just with the default configuration:
./configure [...standard flags...]  \
        --enable-threads \
        --enable-shared \
        --disable-static

Gerrit
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