Are you sure? They are all valid (though equery resolves the links):

~» equery b /usr/lib/{libcblas.so,libf77blas.so,libatlas.so}
* Searching for
/usr/lib/libcblas.so,/usr/lib/libf77blas.so,/usr/lib/libatlas.so ...
sci-libs/atlas-3.10.1-r1 (/usr/lib64/libatlas.so.3)
sci-libs/atlas-3.10.1-r1 (/usr/lib64/libf77blas.so.3)
sci-libs/gsl-1.14 (/usr/lib64/libgslcblas.so.0.0.0)



On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 5:17 AM, François Bissey <fbissey@slingshot.co.nz>wrote:

> On 2013-08-23 03:36, Sébastien Fabbro wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 1:11 AM, P Purkayastha <ppurka@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>  Actually I do have those libraries. Only missing one is liblapack.*. It
>>> is
>>> probably one of the similarly named libraries, except I don't know
>>> which. I
>>> don't want to find out by hit and trial given how finicky atlas is.
>>>
>>>
>> If you installed atlas with gentoo, you can see which library is
>> lapack with the atlas-lapack and atlas-lapack-threads pkg-config
>> files.
>> To avoid collision with lapack and cblas, the libcblas and liblapack
>> were renamed to libatlcblas and libatllapack. All the other libraries
>> kept their original names.
>>
>>  The existence of the links he mentioned makes me think he has left over
> from the old virtual from the main tree.
>
> Francois
>
>