Posted by
Dirk Eddelbuettel on
Jul 26, 2003; 9:32am
URL: http://quantlib.414.s1.nabble.com/tarballs-tp10294p10298.html
On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 05:03:30PM +0200, Luigi Ballabio wrote:
> On 2003.07.26 15:15, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> >
> >Another point: the examples no longer build as part of 'make', and
> >they don't seem to respont, once built, to 'make install'.
> >
> >Is that intentional?
>
> It is. They build only if you say "make examples", and don't get
> installed---there's no much use for them as installed binaries, as
> you can't even pass them any parameters. The sources are
> the really useful part. Maybe you can add them to the docs package?
Err, earth to quantlib, earth to quantlib, ... The examples have been
available (as binaries) in a separate package quantlib-examples for as long
as there have been Debian packages. [1] They are useful, see e.g. the
screenshot of my Quantian 'open mosix and apps on a bootable cd' project
where the BermudanSwaption is used to test openMosix :) So that said, I
would like to see 'make' build them and 'make install' install them. As
'make examples' builds them, could we settle on 'make install-examples' to
install them?
And yes, the example sources have always been installed as examples in the
-dev package.
> As for quantlib.el, I uploaded new tarballs. I don't really know what
> automake will say when it'll see that you don't have emacs. If it
> complains loudly and stops, I'll have to try and add a conditional in
> there...
Well, so do I understand this as emacs now beeing a build requirement? No
sweat, I will simply add it. That said, you should still add code to have it
behave gracefully in case a vi addict tries to build QL .... :)
Ciao, Dirk
[1]
edd@homebud:~> apt-cache search quantlib
libquantlib0 - Quantitative Finance Library -- development package
libquantlib0-dev - Quantitative Finance Library -- library package
quantlib-examples - Quantitative Finance Library -- example binaries
quantlib-python - Python bindings for the Quantlib Quantitative Finance library
quantlib-refman - Quantitative Finance Library -- reference manual
quantlib-ruby - Ruby bindings for the Quantlib Quantitative Finance library
r-cran-rquantlib - GNU R package interfacing the QuantLib finance library
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