Declare project dependency on C to avoid the CMAKE default of C,C++ #1044
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Description
#834 had removed all language requirements from the
project
command in the toplevel CMakeLists.txt in order to move the dependencies on a Fortran compiler to those subprojects that actually need them (and make LAPACKE buildable without one).However, the default in CMAKE is to assume a project dependency on both C and C++ if no language was
expressly requested. In the absence of any actual C++ code, this creates a spurious dependency that can prevent building
LAPACK on systems where such a compiler is not available or at least not installed by default. (This was noted in a comment on #988)