Atlas and lapack provide the same library..compiled differently... is that a problem?

[Matthew Garrett]

On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 12:18:40PM +0000, Jonathan Underwood wrote:

> [Or liblapack should be set up using alternatives. Not sure if
> alternatives works for libraries? Actually, what's really needed as
> some sort of simple way for the user to select which library is used
> when two or more have the same name.]

What's needed is for us not to be distributing two libraries with the 
same SONAME and differing ABIs, I think. It's pretty inevitably going to 
lead to failure.

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