Subject: bug#57954: closed (Re: [bug#57954] Some details about why and see if there is no other solution.)

From: [email-masked] (GNU bug Tracking System)
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2022 12:20:02 +0000

Your bug report

#57954: [PATCH] gnu: clapack: Use position-independent code for use as a library.

which was filed against the guix-patches package, has been closed.

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Subject: Re: [bug#57954] Some details about why and see if there is no other solution.
From: Nicolas Graves <[email-masked]>
To: Maxime Devos <[email-masked]>, [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2022 14:19:39 +0200
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

> ... it sounds like clapack could be replaced with lapack without any
> problems (and even removed), and our 'lapack' package already makes
> shared libraries, which seems like a simpler course of action.

You're absolutely right about this. I replaced clapack by lapack and
discarded the flag -lf2c during the build phase.

Everything works fine. I'm closing the issue.

The resulting packages are available in issue 58140.

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Nicolas Graves

Subject: [PATCH] gnu: clapack: Use position-independent code for use as a library.
From: Nicolas Graves <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2022 14:40:10 +0200
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

* gnu/packages/maths.scm (clapack): Use position-independent code for use as a library.
---
 gnu/packages/maths.scm | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/gnu/packages/maths.scm b/gnu/packages/maths.scm
index 72d5e9a83a..0c4b7ada03 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/maths.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/maths.scm
@@ -968,6 +968,7 @@ (define-public clapack
     (build-system cmake-build-system)
     (arguments
      `(#:configure-flags '("-DCMAKE_C_FLAGS=-fcommon -O2")
+       #:make-flags '("-fPIC")
        #:phases
        (modify-phases %standard-phases
          ;; These tests use a lot of stack variables and segfault without
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