The biggest change is that most of `0001-hacks-for-WebAssembly-build.patch` is eliminated, and the remaining is split up into individual single-purpose patches with corresponding documentation.
Most of `0001-hacks-for-WebAssembly-build.patch` is in fact unnecessary. We can continue to produce `.a` files instead of `.bc` files, and all we have to do to make it build is to set `$(ARCH) = emar` and `$(RANLIB) = emranlib`. In fact, we don't have to set them to anything, since the point of emmake is to set these for us (except emmake uses `$(AR)` so we set `$(ARCH) = $(AR)`).
There are places where `ar` and `cc` etc. are used directly instead of the variables; we use `sed` to fix this in the parent `Makefile` instead of patching.
In addition, there are also the following changes:
- Change the build system to build CLAPACK-WA/INSTALL as well. We should always have built it, but we managed to get away with not doing so due to a bug in emscripten that is fixed in 1.38.43. See https://github.com/iodide-project/pyodide/pull/843#issuecomment-744428471
- Generate `F2CLIB/libf2c/arith.h` properly instead of setting it to an empty file.
- Remove a seemingly unnecessary patch (945f06c46e)
Dexter Chua