What Linux distro?  If you&#39;re on an unusual distro  You might just need to patch the build process to look up the right names. <div><br></div><div>Also have you contacted the hmatrix maintainer to ask him for help. HMATRIX does have an issue tracker on github etc<span></span><br>
<div><br>On Friday, August 22, 2014, Adrian Victor Crisciu &lt;<a href="mailto:acrisciu@gmail.com">acrisciu@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<br>Resolving dependencies...<br>Configuring hmatrix-0.16.0.4...<br>cabal: Missing dependencies on foreign libraries:<br>* Missing C libraries: blas, lapack<br>This problem can usually be solved by installing the system packages that<br>

provide these libraries (you may need the &quot;-dev&quot; versions). If the libraries<br>are already installed but in a non-standard location then you can use the<br>flags --extra-include-dirs= and --extra-lib-dirs= to specify where they are.<br>

Failed to install hmatrix-0.16.0.4<br>cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:<br>hmatrix-0.16.0.4 failed during the configure step. The exception was:<br>ExitFailure 1<br><br></div>As I said before, the libraries for blas and lapack ARE in /usr/local/lib and the header files ARE in /usr/local/include.<br>

<br></div>Is it possible for hmatrix to look for another version of atlas/blas and lapack? I have installed atlas-3.3.8 and lapack-3.4.0<br><br></div>Adrian.<br><div><div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div></div>

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