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

[Jonathan Underwood]

2009/1/5 Michael Schwendt <mschwendt at gmail.com>:
> 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.
>

Ah, yes, looking at the atlas spec, it looks like the atlas package is
doing a variant of this:

http://math-atlas.sourceforge.net/errata.html#completelp