List of gfortran-ready libraries and packages

[Jorge D'ELIA]

> > Compiler installation and use of libraries are, for gfortran like
> > for many open source projects, an important part of the barrier to
> > adoption (just see c.l.f and regular questions on this list).
> > Commercial compilers now sell packages including common libraries
> > (BLAS, LAPACK, etc.).

An opinion in this direction, from an end-user of GFortran. Perhaps 
a fairly complete "MathGFortranLibrary" that combines implementations 
of mathematical functions in one library for system-wide use and 
optimized to get peak performance. Such library would be in the style 
of the MKL one, e.g. with FFT, (full) ATLAS, LAPACK, as well as other 
matrix (transcendental?) libraries.

Regards,
Jorge.
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