Hi Alastair, I saw your reports about adding pkg-config support for BLAS and LAPACK implementations (#764372 and #764491).
I am basically in agreement with this change, but I don't have the time to take care of it before the jessie freeze. So, if you want to have this change in Jessie, feel free to do a Team Upload (or a DELAY/0 NMU if you're not in the Debian Science Team). However, if you do that, please also make similar changes at the same time to atlas (adding both a blas-atlas.pc and lapack-atlas.pc) and to lapack (adding a lapack-netlib.pc). Also, I don't think that cblas.pc is the right name for the blas package pkg-config file (cblas is a C interface to the Fortran 77 BLAS routines). I would rather call that file blas-netlib.pc. For the openblas case, I don't think it makes much sense to set libdir to /usr/lib/openblas (though it does not harm), since actually the symlink /usr/lib/libblas.a will point to the right place. Finally, I don't understand why you say that your .pc file for OpenBLAS enables linking to OpenBLAS both generically and explicitly. Actually, it only enables generic linking to a BLAS alternative. The specific linking to OpenBLAS is provided by /usr/lib/libopenblas.so.0 (which has a different SONAME). -- .''`. Sébastien Villemot : :' : Debian Developer `. `' http://sebastien.villemot.name `- GPG Key: 4096R/381A7594
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