Hello Lumin, just my 2 cts. Cmake is usually crossplatform. So it should not be too difficult to adopt it for Linux. It would be much better as a set of hardcoded makefiles which can be a nightmare in a long perspective.
> * abseil [missing] I have started to prepare a package of it [1]. But there are a couple of principal questions which need to be discussed with upstream. [1] https://salsa.debian.org/debian/abseil Regards Anton 2018-07-05 16:05 GMT+02:00 Lumin <cdlumin...@gmail.com>: > Hello d-Science and d-Python team, > > Long time ago, TensorFlow packaging was blocked by bazel, > a google's java-based building system which is hard to harness. > At that time, cmake build was available but it's written for > windows. > > However, by chance I discovered that tensorflow now ships > a set of makefiles[1], which is explicitly saying "support Ubuntu". > That means packaging TensorFlow is now viable, as long as we patch > the build system to prevent it from downloading tarballs. > > If you are looking for things to do, or interested in machine learning > or deep learning applications, you might want to have a look at it. > > However, I'm not working on it because: > 1. I'm a bit overload these days, working on the Julia package. > 2. unfortunately I don't like TensorFlow. I like it's main > competitor -- PyTorch. > But if someone is going to do something about it, I'd be happy to help. > > > Let's have a look at the dependencies: > > * eigen [OK] > * gemmlowp [OK, maintained by me] > * googletest [OK] > * nsync [missing] > * protobuf [OK] > * re2 [OK] > * fft2d [missing] > * abseil [missing] > * cub [missing, NVIDIA's BSD-3-clause software that depends on CUDA] > We don't need this pile of code when compiling CPU-only tensorflow. > > If someone is going to hack the makefiles, I'd suggest that, > try building a CPU-only version first. > > Best, > > > [1] > https://salsa.debian.org/science-team/tensorflow/blob/master/tensorflow/contrib/makefile/build_all_linux.sh > [2] > https://salsa.debian.org/science-team/tensorflow/blob/master/tensorflow/contrib/makefile/download_dependencies.sh >
