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Detecting External Libraries and Programs

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

Detecting the Python interpreter
Detecting the Python library
Detecting Python modules and packages
Detecting the BLAS and LAPACK math libraries
Detecting the OpenMP parallel environment
Detecting the MPI parallel environment
Detecting the Eigen library
Detecting the Boost libraries
Detecting external libraries: I. Using pkg-config
Detecting external libraries: II. Writing a find-module

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