Several users have reported problems with octave's internal lapack and blas routines. Hence, removed the blas USE flag and forced the use of external blas and lapack.

(Portage version: 2.1.2_rc3-r2)

3 files changed, 152 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/sci-mathematics/octave/ChangeLog b/sci-mathematics/octave/ChangeLog
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@@ -1,6 +1,14 @@
 # ChangeLog for sci-mathematics/octave
 # Copyright 2002-2006 Gentoo Foundation; Distributed under the GPL v2
-# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/sci-mathematics/octave/ChangeLog,v 1.43 2006/11/13 13:42:06 fmccor Exp $
+# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/sci-mathematics/octave/ChangeLog,v 1.44 2006/12/13 02:44:55 markusle Exp $
+
+*octave-2.1.73-r2 (12 Dec 2006)
+
+  12 Dec 2006; Markus Dittrich <markusle@gentoo.org>
+  +octave-2.1.73-r2.ebuild:
+  Several users have reported problems with octave's internal lapack
+  and blas routines. Hence, removed the blas USE flag and forced the
+  use of external blas and lapack.
 
   13 Nov 2006; Ferris McCormick <fmccor@gentoo.org> octave-2.1.73-r1.ebuild:
   Stable on sparc --- Bug #141446 --- I am bypassing 2.1.73 for 2.1.73-r1
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+SHA256 8ccaee227c6cad3b5633a904414f17ce73de8eab2abd4d2e6a3972dd878ffbc3 octave-2.1.73.tar.bz2 5790133
diff --git a/sci-mathematics/octave/octave-2.1.73-r2.ebuild b/sci-mathematics/octave/octave-2.1.73-r2.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2006 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/sci-mathematics/octave/octave-2.1.73-r2.ebuild,v 1.1 2006/12/13 02:44:55 markusle Exp $
+
+inherit flag-o-matic fortran autotools
+
+DESCRIPTION="GNU Octave is a high-level language (MatLab compatible) intended for numerical computations"
+LICENSE="GPL-2"
+HOMEPAGE="http://www.octave.org/"
+SRC_URI="ftp://ftp.octave.org/pub/octave/bleeding-edge/${P}.tar.bz2
+		ftp://ftp.math.uni-hamburg.de/pub/soft/math/octave/${P}.tar.bz2"
+
+SLOT="0"
+IUSE="emacs static readline zlib doc hdf5 mpi"
+KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~ppc ~ppc64 ~sparc ~x86"
+
+DEPEND="virtual/libc
+	dev-util/dejagnu
+	>=sys-libs/ncurses-5.2-r3
+	>=sci-visualization/gnuplot-3.7.1-r3
+	>=sci-libs/fftw-2.1.3
+	>=dev-util/gperf-2.7.2
+	virtual/blas
+	virtual/lapack
+	zlib? ( sys-libs/zlib )
+	hdf5? ( sci-libs/hdf5 )
+	doc? ( virtual/tetex )
+	mpi? ( virtual/mpi )
+	!=app-text/texi2html-1.70"
+
+# NOTE: octave supports blas/lapack from intel but this is not open
+# source nor is it free (as in beer OR speech) Check out...
+# http://developer.intel.com/software/products/mkl/mkl52/index.htm for
+# more information
+FORTRAN="gfortran g77 f2c"
+
+src_unpack() {
+	unpack ${A}
+	cd "${S}"
+
+	epatch "${FILESDIR}"/${P}-gcc4.1-gentoo.patch
+	epatch "${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-example-fix.patch
+	epatch "${FILESDIR}"/${P}-f2c-fix.patch
+	eautoconf
+}
+
+
+src_compile() {
+	filter-flags -ffast-math
+
+	local myconf="--localstatedir=/var/state/octave --enable-rpath"
+	myconf="${myconf} --enable-lite-kernel"
+	use static || myconf="${myconf} --disable-static --enable-shared --enable-dl"
+	# Only add -lz to LDFLAGS if we have zlib in USE !
+	# BUG #52604
+	# Danny van Dyk 2004/08/26
+	use zlib && append-ldflags -lz
+
+	# MPI requires the use of gcc/g++ wrappers
+	# mpicc/mpic++
+	# octave links agains -lmpi by default
+	# mpich needs -lmpich instead
+	if use mpi; then
+		CC="mpicc" && CXX="mpiCC"
+		if has_version 'sys-cluster/mpich'; then
+			myconf="${myconf} --with-mpi=mpich"
+		else
+			myconf="${myconf} --with-mpi=mpi"
+		fi
+	else
+		CC="$(tc-getCC)"
+		CXX="$(tc-getCXX)"
+		myconf="${myconf} --without-mpi"
+	fi
+
+	# force use of external blas and lapack
+	myconf="${myconf} --with-blas=blas --with-lapack=lapack"
+
+	CC="${CC}" CXX="${CXX}" \
+	econf \
+		$(use_with hdf5) \
+		$(use_enable readline) \
+		${myconf} \
+		|| die "econf failed"
+
+	emake || die "emake failed"
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	make install DESTDIR="${D}" || die "make install failed"
+	if use doc; then
+		octave-install-doc || die "Octave doc install failed"
+	fi
+	if use emacs; then
+		cd emacs
+		exeinto /usr/bin
+		doexe otags || die
+		doman otags.1 || die
+		for emacsdir in /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp /usr/lib/xemacs/site-lisp; do
+			insinto ${emacsdir}
+			doins *.el || die
+		done
+		cd ..
+	fi
+	dodir /etc/env.d || die
+	echo "LDPATH=/usr/lib/octave-${PV}" > "${D}"/etc/env.d/99octave || die
+
+	# Fixes ls-R files to remove /var/tmp/portage references.
+	sed -i -e "s:${D}::g" "${D}"/usr/libexec/${PN}/ls-R || die
+	sed -i -e "s:${D}::g" "${D}"/usr/share/${PN}/ls-R || die
+}
+
+pkg_postinst() {
+	echo
+	einfo "Some users have reported failures at running simple tests if"
+	einfo "octave was built with agressive optimisations. You can check if"
+	einfo "your setup is affected by this bug by running the following test"
+	einfo "(inside the octave interpreter):"
+	einfo
+	einfo "octave:1> y = [1 3 4 2 1 5 3 5 6 7 4 5 7 10 11 3];"
+	einfo "octave:2> g = [1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 3];"
+	einfo "octave:3> anova(y, g)"
+	einfo
+	einfo "If these commands complete successfully with no error message,"
+	einfo "your installation should be ok. Otherwise, try recompiling"
+	einfo "octave using less agressive \"CFLAGS\" (combining \"-O3\" and"
+	einfo "\"-march=pentium4\" is known to cause problems)."
+	echo
+}
+
+octave-install-doc() {
+	echo "Installing documentation..."
+	insinto /usr/share/doc/${PF}
+	doins doc/faq/Octave-FAQ.dvi || die
+	doins doc/interpreter/octave.dvi || die
+	doins doc/liboctave/liboctave.dvi || die
+	doins doc/refcard/refcard-a4.dvi || die
+	doins doc/refcard/refcard-legal.dvi || die
+	doins doc/refcard/refcard-letter.dvi || die
+}