BFL for Debian/Ubuntu

Hi Dirk,
(Hope you don't mind me CCing the BFL mailinglist)

> I came across your packages for BFL etc today -- very useful, so
> thanks for writing and providing these.
>
> Could you possibly make the sources available too so that one could
> create variations?

You can get the sources as a tar.gz or svn, from the BFL webpage on
. We might get deb-src packages in the future!

> I may want to try rebuilding these as shared libraries.

We're actually in the process of porting BFL from autotools to cmake, which
will result in the ability to build shared libraries. Although, the LTI
matrix library only builds static libraries, so that might be a problem... I
have to look into that some more.

> Debian already alreay has Newmat, so the matrix wrapping
> looks like a good idea.

I didn't know that! As far as I remember, Newmat has shared libraries too, so
it might be a good idea to include Newmat with the shared BFL library.

> Have you considered Boost and the uBlas / Atlas bindings?

BFL actually uses 2 wrappers: 1 for its matrix library, and 1 for its random
number generator (rng) library. As for now, Boost is already supported as the
rnd lib. We hope to have boost support for the matrix lib one day. For sure
we could use some help for that one! :-)

Ciao!

Wim
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BFL for Debian/Ubuntu

On 4/26/07, Wim meeussen <wim [dot] meeussen [..] ...> wrote:
[...]
> > I may want to try rebuilding these as shared libraries.
>
> We're actually in the process of porting BFL from autotools to cmake, which
> will result in the ability to build shared libraries.

Building shared libraries shouldn't be a problem right now either by
just passing --enable-shared to configure

[kgad@watt ~/SVN/bfl-trunk/build-optimised/src/.libs]$
ll
total 6928
-rw-r--r-- 1 kgad fmtc 2902014 2007-04-26 09:16 libbayes.a
lrwxrwxrwx 1 kgad fmtc 14 2007-04-26 09:16 libbayes.la -> ../libbayes.la
-rw-r--r-- 1 kgad fmtc 877 2007-04-26 09:16 libbayes.lai
lrwxrwxrwx 1 kgad fmtc 17 2007-04-26 09:16 libbayes.so -> libbayes.so.0.0.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 kgad fmtc 17 2007-04-26 09:16 libbayes.so.0 ->
libbayes.so.0.0.0
-rwxr-xr-x 1 kgad fmtc 4175389 2007-04-26 09:16 libbayes.so.0.0.0

I recall there were sometimes strange linking issues (due to libtool
IIRC) in the past.

regards,

Klaas (from the autotools anti-FUD team :)
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