ada: What is libgnalasup?

[Arnaud Charlet]

> In Interfaces.Fortran.Blas, there is a reference to libgnalasup. It has
> been introduced by this commit:
> 
>   Author: charlet <charlet@138bc75d-0d04-0410-961f-82ee72b054a4>
>   Date:   Tue Aug 14 08:50:51 2007 +0000
> 
>     2007-08-14  Geert Bosch  <bosch@adacore.com>
>     
>         * i-forbla.ads, i-forbla.adb, a-ngcoar.adb, a-ngcoar.ads, i-forlap.ads,
>         s-gearop.adb, s-gecobl.adb, s-gecobl.ads, s-gerela.adb, s-gerela.ads:
>         Add required linker pragmas for automatically linking with the gnalasup
>         linear algebra support library, and the systems math library.
>         Rename cdot to cdotu and zdot to zdotu.
>         Update header comment to describe purpose of package.
[...]
> Otherwise, it looks like we can replace the reference in GCC
> i-forbla.adb by references to liblapack and libblas instead. Would
> that be functionally equivalent?

Yes, libgnalasup is a bundled version of lapack/blas libraries.

Arno