From: Jim Peters (jim_at_uazu.net)
Date: 2002-03-01 14:13:34
Doug Sutherland wrote:
> Considering the audience, the linux people should know
> how to build from source. If they don't they should
> learn. If we use automake, it will be easy as pie. And
> both FFTW and SDL use automake. My vote is to only do
> source for linux but source or binaries for windows.
Agreed. If someone wants to produce a .deb package, great! This is
the traditional way -- the originators make a source package, and
individual distributions take care of binaries.
Answering Dave's question regarding single versus double precision
here (to save postings), I'm using single precision to save memory.
When the transforms get big (if you are looking at very low
frequencies), it is easy to exhaust memory, so using 50% less helps.
You might want both single and double-precision installed in a system
if you have different apps needing different versions.
> > (See Sorcerer Linux for a rather novel distribution
> > based entirely on source downloads
>
> See LinuxFromScratch if you want to start with just gcc
> and binutils and build everything. Perhaps this is
> similar to sorcerer. http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/
No, Sorcerer is like Debian or Red Hat in that it has packages with
dependencies (which are called 'spells'). However, the 'spell' is
just a script (or bunch of scripts) to download and build the app from
source, customising it to your particular processor and installed
libraries as it goes. You can do a full install from source
(including X-Windows and everything) fully automatically, or even a
nightly update. The only cost is increased time for all the builds.
To me, this would be great -- it is always a pain to have to download
the source separately if you want to customise something.
Jim
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