Bug#722252: lapack: -Bsymbolic-functions prevents override of xerblas_

[Sylvestre Ledru]

On 09/09/2013 15:30, Julian Taylor wrote:
> Package: lapack
> Version: 3.4.2+dfsg-1
> Severity: wishlist
>
> The lapack build uses dpkg-buildflags --get LDFLAGS to obtain the
> LDFLAGS.
> This can include -Bsymbolic-functions in some distributions (e.g.
> ubuntu, but not debian).
> The use of -Bsymbolic-functions to create liblapack.so binds the
> xerblas_ implementation to the one provided in lapack itself.
> This is very problematic as the lapack xerblas_ aborts the process on
> invalid parameters.
Thanks for this feedback.
Why did you set the severity to wishlist if it is "very problematic" ?  :)

Sylvestre