[SCM] Positional Astronomy Library branch, debian, updated. e9a7ee13cb6b588cf5117d4beedc0bf7851cb7b0

Ole Streicher debian at liska.ath.cx
Fri Feb 10 22:34:04 UTC 2012


The following commit has been merged in the debian branch:
commit e9a7ee13cb6b588cf5117d4beedc0bf7851cb7b0
Author: Ole Streicher <debian at liska.ath.cx>
Date:   Fri Feb 10 23:33:37 2012 +0100

    Add README.debian to document changes

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+This library is built from the GPL Fortran version of SLA in the Starlink
+repository 
+
+http://starlink.jach.hawaii.edu/git/?p=starlink.git;a=tree;f=libraries/sla
+
+It can be called from Fortran as well as from C.
+
+This library source contained an obfusticated C version of slaDeuler() in
+sla.c. It was used there in preference to a wrapper around the Fortran
+SLA_DEULER routine in order to ensure it is thread safe.
+
+This obfuscated C code is reverted to the Fortran wrapper. Thread safety of
+the library is ensured by the "-frecursive" compiler flag.
+
+Note that there is a library "PAL" in development in the Starlink project
+which will be compatible except that the functions have the prefix "pal"
+instead of "sla". 
+
+Ole Streicher, Fri, 10 Feb 2012

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Positional Astronomy Library



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