diff --git a/libraries/lapack/lapack.SlackBuild b/libraries/lapack/lapack.SlackBuild
index 81297f29a5..1ee2e1cf70 100644
--- a/libraries/lapack/lapack.SlackBuild
+++ b/libraries/lapack/lapack.SlackBuild
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 # shared library version problem (major version consistency between updates)
 
 PRGNAM=lapack
-VERSION=${VERSION:-3.3.1}
+VERSION=${VERSION:-3.4.1}
 BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
 
diff --git a/libraries/lapack/lapack.info b/libraries/lapack/lapack.info
index 0c1db658fd..0c6cdbf73f 100644
--- a/libraries/lapack/lapack.info
+++ b/libraries/lapack/lapack.info
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 PRGNAM="lapack"
-VERSION="3.3.1"
+VERSION="3.4.1"
 HOMEPAGE="http://www.netlib.org/lapack/"
-DOWNLOAD="http://www.netlib.org/lapack/lapack-3.3.1.tgz"
-MD5SUM="d0d533ec9a5b74933c2a1e84eedc58b4"
+DOWNLOAD="http://www.netlib.org/lapack/lapack-3.4.1.tgz"
+MD5SUM="44c3869c38c8335c2b9c2a8bb276eb55"
 DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
 MD5SUM_x86_64=""
 REQUIRES="blas"
-MAINTAINER="Eugene Suter"
-EMAIL="easuter@gmail.com"
+MAINTAINER="Serban Udrea"
+EMAIL="S.Udrea@gsi.de"
diff --git a/libraries/lapack/make.inc b/libraries/lapack/make.inc
index b07500e16a..ed1c7578fa 100644
--- a/libraries/lapack/make.inc
+++ b/libraries/lapack/make.inc
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ LOADOPTS =
 # SECOND and DSECND will use a call to the Fortran standard INTERNAL FUNCTION CPU_TIME 
 #TIMER    = INT_CPU_TIME
 # If neither of this works...you can use the NONE value... In that case, SECOND and DSECND will always return 0
-TIMER     = NONE
+TIMER     = INT_ETIME
 #
 #  The archiver and the flag(s) to use when building archive (library)
 #  If you system has no ranlib, set RANLIB = echo.