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+The following notes apply just for LAPACK built against ATLAS.
+
+IMPORTANT NOTES:
+
+
+1) If you update ATLAS, you MUST also rebuild and reinstall LAPACK, even if
+   there is no update available for LAPACK! Otherwise you end up with a
+   broken/incomplete LAPACK library!
+
+2) This SlackBuild conflicts with the lapack.SlackBuild which is meant mainly
+   for compilation against the reference BLAS. You may install LAPACK by
+   this SlackBuild in parallel with the LAPACK built against the reference BLAS
+   if you use the SYS_DESTDIR and DEFAULT_DOCS variables (see below), but then
+   you are on your own, especially when compiling other software against LAPACK
+   and BLAS/ATLAS.
+
+3) There are a few extra variables which you may want or need to give
+   appropriate values when calling the lapack-atlas.SlackBuild: SYS_DESTDIR,
+   DEFAULT_DOCS, USE_ATLAS_PT_LIBS and TEST_LAPACK.
+
+   SYS_DESTDIR is set by default to "/usr" and is the system destination
+   directory. When installing the package produced by this SlackBuild,
+   LAPACK's files will be written to $SYS_DESTDIR/lib (or lib64).
+   Documentation files are written to /usr/doc/lapack-atlas-$VERSION if not
+   otherwise stated (see below).
+   You may want to change the value of SYS_DESTDIR to avoid conflicts (see
+   the notes above). IMPORTANT: SYS_DESTDIR has to have an absolute
+   path as value.
+
+   DEFAULT_DOCS has the default value "yes", which means that docs go
+   to /usr/doc/lapack-atlas-$VERSION, but you may want to let the docs to
+   go to $SYS_DESTDIR/doc/lapack-atlas-$VERSION. For this, just set this
+   variable to something like "no".
+
+   USE_ATLAS_PT_LIBS is set by default to "yes" which means that this script
+   will try to build LAPACK against the threaded ATLAS libs. On a single
+   processor machine these are missing and you will get a WARNING which you
+   can ignore, since ATLAS will not create these libraries on such a machine.
+   On a multi processor machine the WARNING should not be there and you need to
+   set this variable to "no" if you want to force LAPACK to build against the
+   single threaded ATLAS libraries. At this point in time this is discouraged
+   and you are on your own if you do it, especially when compiling other
+   software which depends on LAPACK and ATLAS.
+
+   TEST_LAPACK is set by default to "no" which means that this script will not
+   try to run the LAPACK test suite. Set it to "yes" if you want the opposite.
+
+   All these settings may be done the usual way on the command line when
+   calling this SlackBuild, you do not have to edit the script.