Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 07:18:50 +0100 From: Rainer Hurling <rhurlin@gwdg.de> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New port math/sprng: Need some help, please Message-ID: <4D3D19CA.6040806@gwdg.de> In-Reply-To: <4D3C99F6.6040703@gwdg.de> References: <4D3C99F6.6040703@gwdg.de>
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For who is interested in (and for the record): I filed a PR and b.f. has taken it, see http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=154249 Am 23.01.2011 22:13 (UTC+1) schrieb Rainer Hurling: > I created a port for SPRNG version 2, the Scalable Parallel Pseudo > Random Number Generators Library ( http://sprng.cs.fsu.edu/ ). > > It builds and installs but it is not usable so far because of some > problems with the method of building shared libraries. > > The sources seem to be incomplete in some way. They only build static > libraries and there is no install target in the code. I had to patch the > sources on several places to get it compiled. > > Now there remain several problems with the installed libraries 'libsprng*': > > (1) After installation with ${INSTALL_LIB} they do not have any symbols > any more. > > nm /usr/ports/math/sprng/work/sprng2.0/lib/libsprng.so.2.0 > > shows symbols built in, the next does not > > nm /usr/local/lib/libsprng.so.2.0 > > (2) The fortran stuff is not build in correctly. SPRNG has two scripts > to test the installed sprng code, 'checksprng' and 'timesprng'. Both > give correct results for the C interface and both fail for the fortran > interface. > > Probably there a more issues with the port and patches :-( > > I have only little experience in creating ports and almost no skills in > C/C++ programming, so I could really need some help.
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