We build R with dynamically linked BLAS and LAPACK libraries, in order to use the AMD Core Math Library (ACML) multi-threaded implementation of these routines on our 64 core servers. This is great, and our users really appreciate it. However, when building like this, make check fails on the reg-BLAS.R test. The reason for this is that the expected test output is checked using identical. By changing all uses of identical in this file to all.equal, the tests pass. Specifically, I run this command before make check: $ sed -i -e 's/identical/all.equal/g' tests/reg-BLAS.R I suggest that the test is fixed like this in the R source code. Here is the configure command I use, on CentOS 7: $ ./configure --with-system-zlib --with-system-bzlib --with-system-pcre \ --with-blas \ --with-lapack \ --with-tcl-config=/usr/lib64/tclConfig.sh \ --with-tk-config=/usr/lib64/tkConfig.sh \ --enable-R-shlib \ --enable-prebuilt-html cheers, Simon