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

[Julian Taylor]

On 09/09/2013 03:37 PM, Sylvestre Ledru wrote:
> 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
>

because it doesn't affect Debian.
I can provide a patch later, what variant do you prefer?