I lie (apparently) - turns out step (7) (below) *did* work. OK, so why didn't previous attempts at the problem (i.e., using LD_LIBRARY_PATH) work? Hmmm.... > 7. one final attempt: > > ./configure --with-blas="-L/opt/acml3.5.0/gnu64/lib -lacml" > > No change - readline is still the only > > > > >