[SciPy-user] import scipy fails - cannot find liblapack.so.3

[Ray]

Hello,

After a comparatively uneventful, though long (4 hours to build ATLAS on
a 1.1 GHz Celeron), build from LAPACK and ATLAS tar-files and scipy CVS
(Nov 12 update), I got the following message when I tried to import
scipy:

Python 2.2 (#1, Apr 12 2002, 15:29:57) 
[GCC 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.2 2.96-109)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import scipy
exceptions.ImportError: liblapack.so.3: cannot open shared object file:
No such file or directory
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/scipy/__init__.py", line 49, in
?
    import special, io, linalg, stats, fftpack
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/scipy/linalg/__init__.py", line
42, in ?
    from basic import *
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/scipy/linalg/basic.py", line
17, in ?
    import calc_lwork
ImportError: liblapack.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such
file or directory
>>> 

Would appreciate suggestions on how to fix this.  Build details and some
output are given below.

Thanks,

Ray

1) Build followed the INSTALL.txt in scipy CVS.  lapack.tgz and
atlas3.4.1.tar.gz were used.

2) python2.2 scipy_distutils/system_info.py
atlas_info:
  FOUND:
    libraries = ['lapack', 'f77blas', 'cblas', 'atlas']
    library_dirs = ['/usr/local/lib/atlas']

blas_info:
  NOT AVAILABLE

blas_src_info:
  NOT AVAILABLE

dfftw_info:
  NOT AVAILABLE

dfftw_threads_info:
  NOT AVAILABLE

djbfft_info:
  NOT AVAILABLE

fftw_info:
  NOT AVAILABLE

fftw_threads_info:
  NOT AVAILABLE

lapack_info:
  NOT AVAILABLE

lapack_src_info:
  NOT AVAILABLE

sfftw_info:
  NOT AVAILABLE

sfftw_threads_info:
  NOT AVAILABLE

x11_info:
  FOUND:
    libraries = ['X11']
    library_dirs = ['/usr/X11R6/lib']
    include_dirs = ['/usr/X11R6/include']

3) ls -l /usr/local/lib/atlas/lib{atlas,cblas,f77blas,lapack}.*
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root      5596040 Nov 13 10:40
/usr/local/lib/atlas/libatlas.a
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       292104 Nov 13 10:22
/usr/local/lib/atlas/libcblas.a
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       355802 Nov 13 10:41
/usr/local/lib/atlas/libf77blas.a
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root      5835672 Nov 13 11:25
/usr/local/lib/atlas/liblapack.a