ATLAS (Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra Software) is an ongoing research effort focusing on applying empirical techniques in order to provide portable performance. At present, it provides C and Fortran77 interfaces to a portably efficient BLAS implementation, as well as a few routines from LAPACK. This requires blas, and it conflicts with cblas (only one of atlas and cblas may be installed at any given time). Take care with LAPACK (see notes 3 & 4 in README.SLACKWARE). You need to read over README.SLACKWARE *before* building this.