[bug#69729] [PATCH 00/41] Improve performance in lapack dependent packages.

[Christopher Baines]

Ludovic Courtès <ludovic.courtes@inria.fr> writes:

> Hello,
>
> Romain GARBAGE <romain.garbage@inria.fr> skribis:
>
>> This patch series aims at improving the performance of several packages by 
>> changing the LAPACK library they depend on.
>>
>> The package `lapack` is the reference implementation from netlib.org of a 
>> numerical linear algebra library, written in FORTRAN.
>>
>> The package `openblas` is a optimized implementation of the LAPACK and BLAS 
>> APIs.
>>
>> Among the modified packages affected by the change, the following don't 
>> build:
>>  * shogun: atlas dependency doesn't build (pre-existing error)
>>  * lush2: preexisting error
>>  * proteinortho: preexisting error (tests 2 and 3 fail)
>>  * superlu-dist: dependency failure (combinatorial-blas)
>>
>>
>> Also, the following packages have not been modified as it breaks the package:
>>  * xyce-serial
>>  * xyce-parallel
>>  * gnss-sdr
>>  * julia
>
> <https://qa.guix.gnu.org/issue/69729> hasn’t processed it yet but it’s
> already been more than two weeks.  Given that you tested all the
> dependents on guix.bordeaux.inria.fr, I’m willing to go ahead and push
> the series within a few days even if qa.guix hasn’t caught up yet.

QA shouldn't block things, especially at the moment when it's not
keeping up. So yeah, please push.

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