Request for review: glpk

Jeff Spaleta jspaleta at gmail.com
Thu Jul 28 21:32:49 UTC 2005


On 7/26/05, Quentin Spencer <qspencer at ieee.org> wrote:
> One note about this package. The upstream sources do not provide for
> building shared libraries. The maintainer has seemed somewhat
> unresponsive to requests on the mailing list for this (and a lot of
> other things), and I don't really have time or interest in maintaining
> patches separate from the sources, so for now this is a static-only
> library. I have put everything in glpk-devel, with the intention of
> creating a glpk package in the future if shared libs are supported. This
> library is not likely to be used by many applications, so for now I
> don't see this as a problem.


The build process is actually building the shared objects... its just
not installing them. It shouldn't be too hard to patch the make
install control code to actually install the shared objects as well. 
If i make a patch wll you use it?

-jef




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