From octave-sources-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Thu May 30 13:56:53 2002
Subject: Re: Replacing LINPACK with LAPACK
From: "Steven G. Johnson" <stevenj at ab-initio dot mit dot edu>
To: David Bateman <David dot Bateman at motorola dot com>
cc: octave-sources at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 14:58:17 -0400 (EDT)

On Thu, 30 May 2002, David Bateman wrote:
> The change to configure.in adds the flag "-without-linpack" that
> forces the use of the code in my patch. The code in my patch is
> entirely inactive without this compile flag, though I imagine that
> this behaviour should eventually be changed.

If you're going to change it to use LAPACK instead of LINPACK (which I
heartily approve...I didn't realize that Octave still used any LINPACK,
since it already links to LAPACK), I think you should just delete the old
code.  What's the point of leaving it as an option?

Steven