Re: [gentoo-science] should we have virtual/clapack

[François Bissey]

On Tue, 08 Dec 2009 06:29:32 Sébastien Fabbro wrote:
> On Sunday 06 December, François Bissey wrote:
> > on a clapack implementations. So should we plan for a virtual/clapack?
>
> I don't know of an official ANSI/ISO C API for clapack.
> The netlib clapack implementation is a f2c'ed conversion from
> Fortran lapack. There is another clapack in ATLAS, which has a
> different API, and does not cover all LAPACK routines.
>
They are the only 2 that I have seen. It is interesting that there
is no official C API. I am guessing linbox is actually expecting ATLAS
since there are different API we will put that.
That's an important clarification.

Thanks,
Francois