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

[Jonathan Underwood]

2009/1/4 Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at>:
> Jeff Spaleta wrote:
>> scipy builds against atlas just fine, and runs on systems just
>> fine...unless lapack is installed on the system. Once lapack is
>> installed the link prefers the lapack package's version of the same
>> library and runtime errors occur.
>
> Weird, normally ATLAS should be preferred and it's also supposed to be
> binary-compatible with LAPACK.
>

The Atlas webpage suggests that the atlas lapack library does not have
complete coverage of all functions in the original Lapack - is that
not the case?

J