r.phillips@jkmrc.com said:
> --with-blas='-L/usr/pkg/lib -lblas -lF77' 
> [...]
> configure: error: *** Supplied blas doesn't link ***

There might be some more information in config.log.

Looking at libblas.so, it seems that needs some
more pieces of runtime environment - libI77 and libm.
So you might try:
--with-blas='-L/usr/pkg/lib -lblas -lF77 -lI77 -lm'

best regards
Matthias




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