Dealing with Linux library problems

MultiTypeTree relies critically on jblas, which provides a very simple wrapper around the extremely fast, well-known BLAS linear algebra library.

Unfortunately, jblas depends on an older version of the FORTRAN library libgfortran being installed, which can cause difficulties for users of newer GNU/Linux systems (recent versions of Debian, for example).

To work around this, you'll need to build this library from scratch. Details are available on the jblas web page, but they are quite finicky. For a basic recipe that works on Debian, refer to the Dockerfile used to configure a testing environment for MultiTypeTree.