I have noticed that fftw has recently been updated from major version 2 to major version 3. It seems the update stems from the mother distribution from RedHat. AFAIK, there are changes to the API in fftw version 3, which may give problems with 3rd party packages. Has anyone got experience with this? And any advice to offer?
Cheers, Morten
On Oct 6, 2006, at 4:49 AM, Morten Kjeldgaard wrote:
I have noticed that fftw has recently been updated from major version 2 to major version 3. It seems the update stems from the mother distribution from RedHat. AFAIK, there are changes to the API in fftw version 3, which may give problems with 3rd party packages. Has anyone got experience with this? And any advice to offer?
Cheers, Morten
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I believe they are not at all compatible. But version 2 is still maintained, the package is called fftw2 (and fftw2-devel) Tony Schreiner Boston College
I believe they are not at all compatible. But version 2 is still maintained, the package is called fftw2 (and fftw2-devel)
Thanks. On rpmforge, fftw ver. 3.* is called fftw3. It is really pretty bad practice to distribute version 3 as a simple upgrade to fftw ver. 2.* when the two versions are not compatible, and the API has changed...
Cheers, Morten
Kjeldgaard Morten wrote:
Thanks. On rpmforge, fftw ver. 3.* is called fftw3. It is really pretty bad practice to distribute version 3 as a simple upgrade to fftw ver. 2.* when the two versions are not compatible, and the API has changed...
But you're barking up the wrong tree: fftw is not an application which comes with CentOS, you should take that to the rpmforge users list.
BTW: kbs-CentOS-Extras still has the fftw2 version (and it's still called fftw there).
Ralph
On Sat, 2006-10-07 at 07:20 +0200, Ralph Angenendt wrote:
Kjeldgaard Morten wrote:
Thanks. On rpmforge, fftw ver. 3.* is called fftw3. It is really pretty bad practice to distribute version 3 as a simple upgrade to fftw ver. 2.* when the two versions are not compatible, and the API has changed...
But you're barking up the wrong tree: fftw is not an application which comes with CentOS, you should take that to the rpmforge users list.
BTW: kbs-CentOS-Extras still has the fftw2 version (and it's still called fftw there).
Ralph
Just for the record (and as Ralph said)
... fftw is not at all part of CentOS ... or RHEL ...
... fftw is not at all part of CentOS ... or RHEL ...
Sorry, my mistake! The package fftw-3.1.1-1.el4 comes from the kde- redhat add-on repo:
$ apt-cache policy fftw fftw: Installed: 2.1.5-4.2.el4.rf Candidate: 3.1.1-1.el4 Version Table: 3.1.1-1.el4 0 500 http://apt.kde-redhat.org kde-redhat/centos/4.3/i386/ stable pkglist *** 2.1.5-4.2.el4.rf 0
So please be aware that kde-redhat is not compatible with RPMforge for the time being! (Until they rename it fftw3-3.1.1-1.el4)
-- Morten
On Mon, 9 Oct 2006, Kjeldgaard Morten wrote:
... fftw is not at all part of CentOS ... or RHEL ...
Sorry, my mistake! The package fftw-3.1.1-1.el4 comes from the kde-redhat add-on repo:
$ apt-cache policy fftw fftw: Installed: 2.1.5-4.2.el4.rf Candidate: 3.1.1-1.el4 Version Table: 3.1.1-1.el4 0 500 http://apt.kde-redhat.org kde-redhat/centos/4.3/i386/stable pkglist *** 2.1.5-4.2.el4.rf 0
Maybe having a kr repotag in kde-redhat would not be such a bad idea :)
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