[Ipopt] Compiling IPOPT on Ubuntu 11.10 64-bit with ATLAS

[David Veerasingam]

Hello,

I was wondering if anyone here running Ubuntu has managed to 
successfully compile IPOPT 3.10 with the system-packaged ATLAS?

I'm running Ubuntu 11.10 64-bit.

In previous versions of Ubuntu, all I had to do was to link against 
libblas.so.3 and liblapack.so.3 provided by the package 
libatlas-dev-sse2. However, this package has been removed and replaced 
with a new package called libatlas-base-dev (ATLAS 3.8.4), which 
provides two new libraries named libf77blas.so and liblapack_atlas.so.

IPOPT's configure script accepts libf77blas.so but fails for 
liblapack_atlas.so.

1) Could it be that the new liblapack_atlas.so does not have the LAPACK 
routines that IPOPT needs?
2) Are there any workarounds or do I have to compile my own ATLAS from 
scratch?

Thanks!

David