Atlas and lapack provide the same library..compiled differently... is that a problem?

[Michael Schwendt]

On Sun, 4 Jan 2009 13:08:03 -0900, Jeff wrote:

> Okay I ran across an interesting issue trying to get scipy compiled
> with atlas support.
> 
> lapack and atlas both provide liblapack.so.3, in different locations,
> but accessible to the linker.

This has been reported before in bugzilla, but according to the package
maintainer the libraries are compatible.

(The list of pkgs which require liblapack.so.3 is quite long nowadays.)