Hi,

On Wed, 21 Aug 2013 20:02:02 +0800
P Purkayastha <[email protected]> wrote:

>   I need to have a personal installation of Sage to do development
> work. However, I also want to reduce my upgrade times by installing a
> system atlas.
> 
>   To do so, I added the science overlay and emerged
> sci-libs/atlas[lapack,fortran,threads]. Thereafter, I added the
> environment variable
> 
> SAGE_ATLAS_LIB=/usr/lib
> 
> and proceeded to compile sage in my home directory. Atlas fails with
> the error that it can not find liblapack. The exact error message is
> given below:
> 
> Cannot find liblapack.* in /usr/lib
> Unable to find one of liblapack, libcblas, libatlas or libf77blas
> in the directory None
> Set SAGE_ATLAS_LIB to the directory containing liblapack, libcblas,
> libatlas and libf77blas (either .a, .so, .dylib extensions) if
> you wish to use existing ATLAS libraries. For more details, see
> http://sagemath.org/doc/installation/source.html#environment-variables
> Unset SAGE_ATLAS_LIB to build ATLAS from source.

if you make Sage believe that the atlas package was installed properly,
the installation proceeds without trouble. So as a quick workaround,
just do

touch spkg/installed/atlas-<version_number>

I always do this on my system. It would be good to find out the proper
solution of course. :)


Cheers,
Burcin

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