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From: Fis Trivial <ybbs.daans@hotmail.com>
To: Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de>
Cc: "31386@debbugs.gnu.org" <31386@debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: [bug#31386] TensorFlow
Date: Tue, 8 May 2018 17:52:10 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BLUPR16MB0500F19BA959CD0EAC62637B929A0@BLUPR16MB0500.namprd16.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <idj603y42r9.fsf@bimsb-sys02.mdc-berlin.net>


Ricardo Wurmus writes:

> This patch series adds a package for TensorFlow (without GPU support).
> I don’t know how useful this is because it just provides a single 180+MB
> statically linked archive (and header files).  It is only the “core”
> part of TensorFlow.
>
> The problem here is that the build system is Bazel, which cannot easily
> be built from source.  Bazel bundles 60+ third-party Java packages, some
> of which are very complex and are very difficult to package.  TensorFlow
> comes with an unsupported Makefile that builds a single statically
> linked library of only the core parts.  That’s what this package
> provides.
>
> Note that TensorFlow 1.8 has been released a few days ago.  This package
> only adds version 1.7.

That's still amazing.

I thought about packaging bazel and looked into the nix package[1]. The
package definition from nix isn't very long, but requires patches. I
dropped the matter since I'm not familiar with java.

[1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/tree/master/pkgs/development/tools/build-managers/bazel

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-05-08 17:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-05-08 14:54 [bug#31386] TensorFlow Ricardo Wurmus
2018-05-08 14:59 ` [bug#31386] [PATCH 1/3] gnu: eigen: Include unsupported features Ricardo Wurmus
2018-05-08 14:59   ` [bug#31386] [PATCH 2/3] gnu: Add gemmlowp-for-tensorflow Ricardo Wurmus
2018-05-09 22:48     ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-05-10  8:40       ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-05-08 14:59   ` [bug#31386] [PATCH 3/3] gnu: Add tensorflow-core Ricardo Wurmus
2018-05-09 22:51     ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-05-10  8:34       ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-05-10 20:24         ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-05-09 22:44   ` [bug#31386] [PATCH 1/3] gnu: eigen: Include unsupported features Ludovic Courtès
2018-05-10  8:42     ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-05-08 17:52 ` Fis Trivial [this message]
2018-05-08 19:26   ` [bug#31386] TensorFlow Björn Höfling
2018-05-09 22:43 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-01-02 16:29 ` Ricardo Wurmus

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