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

[Sylvestre Ledru]

On 09/09/2013 15:47, Julian Taylor wrote:
> 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.
OK, make sense :)
> I can provide a patch later, what variant do you prefer?
A priori, I would prefer the list (I think it is clearer this way for
other maintainers to understand what you did).

Sylvestre