[CMake] Please support FindLAPACK/FindBLAS for C/C++-only projects

[Bill Hoffman]

Alan W. Irwin wrote:

> The subject of a C version of FindLAPACK.cmake and FindBLAS.cmake has been
> brought up a number of times by disgruntled CMake users who need C 
> access to
> the (often Fortran) lapack and blas libraries that are available on their
> systems. Thus, there is strong motivation for _one of those users_ to
> implement a lapack and blas CMake finding and testing module for C as I
> noted in my first post for this thread.  However, they probably need some
> help and guidance with this effort.  To my mind, (3) is a good way to do
> this without them having to "re-invent the wheel" for the fortran find
> effort and without adding or changing features for the fortran version.
> 

FYI, CLAPACK is fully CMake now, and even has a dashboard:

http://my.cdash.org/index.php?project=CLAPACK

You can do this:

find_package(clapack)

It should just work as the clapack has the correct package export stuff 
in its cmake files.

It can be downloaded here:
http://www.netlib.org/clapack/

-Bill

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