sci@gentoo.org Gentoo Science Project The BLAS (Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms) are high quality "building block" routines for performing basic vector and matrix operations. Level 1 BLAS do vector-vector operations, Level 2 BLAS do matrix-vector operations, and Level 3 BLAS do matrix-matrix operations. Because the BLAS are efficient, portable, and widely available, they're commonly used in the development of high quality linear algebra software, LAPACK for example. This packages implements the reference FORTRAN 77 library, the reference C library as a wrapper to the FORTRAN 77 BLAS library. LAPACK is a comprehensive library that does linear algebra operations including matrix inversions, least squared solutions to linear sets of equations, eigenvector analysis, singular value decomposition, etc. It is a very comprehensive and reputable package that has found extensive use in the scientific community. This package installs the reference FORTRAN 77 implementation from Netlib. Also build deprecated functions Build LAPACKE Enable runtime library switching by eselect and ld.so.