Following the instructions given by 'cfi' works for me, although there are a few pieces they left out that you might need:
1) Your lapack directory, after unzipping, may be called lapack-X-Y (some version number), so you can just rename that to LAPACK.
cd ~/src
mv lapack-[tab] LAPACK
2) In that directory, you may need to do:
cd ~/src/LAPACK
cp lapack_LINUX.a libflapack.a