Quoting James Cloos <cloos+gentoo-science@...>:

> How does one update an ebuild to support the new /etc/env.d/alternatives
> scheme for blas, lapack, et al?
>
> As an example, sci-libs/libghemical (in the main tree) fails to build
> because it cannot find -lblas.
>
> Is it just a matter of patching the build system to use pkg-config for
> blas?  Or is there a better way?
>
Hi,

My own understanding is to patch the build system to use pkg-config. It is not
always easy but that's the only way that can really works with the new scheme.

Francois