Linking order

[ivan-pi]

I was watching the fpm tutorial from DJ's Office Hours and noticed the manifest reference says

> To dependent on LAPACK also BLAS should be linked. In this case the order of the libraries matters:
[build]
link = ["blas", "lapack"]

which if I'm not mistaken is opposite order than if compiling manually (-llapack -lblas), since the linker is supposed to satisfy dependencies going from the left to right. (I'm assuming that internally fpm adds the flags in reverse order as the one in the TOML file).

Have there been any previous discussions related to selecting the link library order convention? I'm worried that using the "opposite" convention than the linker itself could be confusing for developers familiar with compiling manually.

[awvwgk]

The order is not reversed by fpm, but the documentation is in error here. It should read

[build]
link = ["lapack", "blas"]

[awvwgk]

Looks like I wasn't paying attention when I wrote the docs to the build.link entry, I switched LAPACK and BLAS in all the link entries in the manifest reference 😅. Good catch.