I had a similar problem in a different situation.
I also used a cheat: i created soft links so that the libraries could be
found ...

jody


On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 5:29 PM, Grant Goodyear <g2boojum@gmail.com> wrote:

> For reproducibility, I like to have a python virtualenv that has all of
> the python libraries that I use, relying on portage just for python,
> virtualenv, and virtualenvwrapper. Building numpy using "pip install numpy"
> fails if I use the science-overlay versions of the reference lapack and
> blas libraries, because pip can't find liblapack to link to it.
>
> Right now I'm cheating and using the non-overlay versions, but I'm sure
> that somebody has a better solution of how to help pip find the right
> libraries.  Help?
>
> Thanks,
> g2boojum
> --
> Grant Goodyear
> web: http://www.grantgoodyear.org
> e-mail: grant@grantgoodyear.org
>