Re: [gentoo-user] How to make Gentoo more cooperative?

[Mark Knecht]

On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 11:06 AM Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 14 Oct 2020 10:44:35 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
>
> > I could be wrong but I don't think tensorflow 2 supports python 3.9
> > yet...
> >
> > https://www.tensorflow.org/install/
>
> It doesn't, at least not from the portage ebuild:
>
> % eix -e tensorflow
> * sci-libs/tensorflow
>      Available versions:  (~)2.1.0 (~)2.2.0-r1 (~)2.2.0-r2 (~)2.3.1 {cuda
mpi +python xla CPU_FLAGS_X86="avx avx2 fma3 fma4 sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1
sse4_2" PYTHON_TARGETS="python3_6 python3_7 python3_8"}
>      Homepage:            https://www.tensorflow.org/
>      Description:         Computation framework using data flow graphs
for scalable machine learning
>

So the ebuild is consistent with Google's requirements which is sensible.
That doesn't mean tensorflow wouldn't work with 3.9 but that would require
the OP to modify the ebuild if there isn't some testing ebuild out in the
ether somewhere.

I'm sadly stuck running tensorflow on Colab because my monster i7 980
Extreme which has been such a wonderful workhorse for probably 8-10 years
now doesn't have the required instruction sets and I cannot justify
the cost of a new machine for this one program... <sniff>