Hello Gwyneth,
hmm, so you are on a Mac and have macports installed. I don't have such a laptop (I only have homebrew installed) but looking at the file repos/simfactory2/mdb/optionlists/osx-macports.cfg then it does contain LAPACK_DIR and LAPACK_LIBS line. Note that LORENE (for the coal executable) does not use Cactus' option list but its own local_settings file (just untar the tarfile in ExternalLibraries/LORENE/dist manually and compile in there).
So you should be able to use
-Wl,-framework,Accelerate
in LDFLAGS (or similar) in local_settings to get Lorene to work.
Similarly for Cactus if you need LAPACK.
For BLAS and LAPACK: please try and compile like so:
make sim-realclean VERBOSE=yes simfactory/bin/sim build sim 2>&1 | tee make.log
and attach the full output of this (in make.log) as well as ideally the content of configs/sim/config-info and configs/sim/bindings/Configuration/Capabilities/make.{BLAS,LAPACK}.{defn,deps}
I've realized that I get the OpenBLAS error regardless of whether or not I set OPENBLAS_DIR=BUILD. So I think there's something wrong with my optionlist.
Just to be sure: you have made sure that the new option list is actually being used? You may have to do something like this:
simfactory/bin/sim build --reconfig --optionlist path-to-your-option-list.cfg
Yours, Roland