I'm kind of ambiguous about the idea of installing pre-compiled
*scientific* libraries, especially complicated ones.
You may not think twice about installing gnome or qt rpms, but (no
offense whatsoever!) Blitz is more complicated than that.
To give you an example, I was struggling with compiling another
well-known library - OSE - with gcc under Solaris. 2.95.2 wouldn't
compile it, so I had to revert to egcs 1.1.2. Then I wanted to use
Blitz with OSE... and found out I had to use repo configuration!
Granted, gcc supports x86 much better than UltraSparc, but can you vouch
for all gcc versions out there to work with your rpm? I guess, my
opinion is that if compiling a library is too much trouble for you, you
shouldn't use it for your research.
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