In case anyone gets here from Google: I managed to build it successfully, by following this recipe: http://mbudisic.wordpress.com/2010/08/12/installing-atlas-with-full-lapack-o... and additionally using latest stable ATLAS (instead latest dev version) paired with LAPACK 3.3.1 (instead latest 3.4.1), as apparently not any LAPACK can be build with any ATLAS, but perhaps pairing roughly dates should go fine. Method described in above post differs from one provided on Scipy page, by the way LAPACK is set, which is not just linked to ATLAS build process with downloaded archive. Looking now, from first post is evident that LAPACK library is striped down version, which is what I got by following instructions on Scipy page. Hope this help someone