From f6208f9c79893ac185518627837152b395425315 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Elliot Saba <staticfloat@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2021 16:39:57 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] [LinearAlgebra] Add `libblas` and `liblapack` bindings in
 again

Some packages use these; rather than create unnecesary package churn,
let's just define them again and add a note that serious applications
should use the much richer detail available from `BLAS.get_config()`.
---
 stdlib/LinearAlgebra/src/blas.jl | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/stdlib/LinearAlgebra/src/blas.jl b/stdlib/LinearAlgebra/src/blas.jl
index 074197176d38f..a31a7349b189b 100644
--- a/stdlib/LinearAlgebra/src/blas.jl
+++ b/stdlib/LinearAlgebra/src/blas.jl
@@ -66,6 +66,13 @@ export
 const libblastrampoline = "libblastrampoline"
 libblastrampoline_handle = C_NULL
 
+# Legacy bindings that some packages (such as NNlib.jl) use.
+# We maintain these for backwards-compatibility but new packages
+# should not look at these, instead preferring to parse the output
+# of BLAS.get_config()
+const libblas = libblastrampoline
+const liblapack = libblastrampoline
+
 import LinearAlgebra
 import LinearAlgebra: BlasReal, BlasComplex, BlasFloat, BlasInt, DimensionMismatch, checksquare, stride1, chkstride1, axpy!