Proposal: Add blas.pc, lapack.pc pkg-config files for blas, atlas

[Alastair McKinstry <mckinstry@debian.org>]

Hi,

I'm proposing to add blas.pc and lapack.pc pkg-config files to the BLAS,
LAPACK
and also ATLAS packages. These packages provide the Blas and lapack
routines,
with Atlas providing optimised versions; they are drop-in compatible. 
It should be
possible for software to auto-build by finding whichever is installed using
`pkg-config --cflags --libs blas`
for example.

For atlas, I propose to provide atlas.pc with blas.pc being an
alternatives symlink
to it.

Are there any comments before I write a patch to do this?

best regards
Alastair

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