diff --git a/cmake/CMakeLists.txt b/cmake/CMakeLists.txt
index 7c2f643f2d..100fa7b9d3 100644
--- a/cmake/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/cmake/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -432,12 +432,7 @@ if(PKG_MSCG OR PKG_ATC OR PKG_AWPMD OR PKG_ML-QUIP OR PKG_ML-POD OR PKG_LATTE OR
     set_target_properties(linalg PROPERTIES OUTPUT_NAME lammps_linalg${LAMMPS_MACHINE})
     set(BLAS_LIBRARIES "$<TARGET_FILE:linalg>")
     set(LAPACK_LIBRARIES "$<TARGET_FILE:linalg>")
-  else()
-    #message(PKG_ML-POD)
-    #message(${BLAS_LIBRARIES})    
-    #message(${LAPACK_LIBRARIES})    
-    #set(lapackblas_libraries ${BLAS_LIBRARIES} ${LAPACK_LIBRARIES})
-    #message(${lapackblas_libraries})    
+  else() 
     list(APPEND LAPACK_LIBRARIES ${BLAS_LIBRARIES})    
   endif()
 endif()
diff --git a/cmake/Modules/StyleHeaderUtils.cmake b/cmake/Modules/StyleHeaderUtils.cmake
index adfe9ba65a..4c4da6aea7 100644
--- a/cmake/Modules/StyleHeaderUtils.cmake
+++ b/cmake/Modules/StyleHeaderUtils.cmake
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ function(DetectBuildSystemConflict lammps_src_dir)
   if(ARGC GREATER 1)
     list(REMOVE_AT ARGV 0)
     foreach(SRC_FILE ${ARGV})
-        get_filename_component(FILENAME ${SRC_FILE} NAME)        
+        get_filename_component(FILENAME ${SRC_FILE} NAME   
         if(EXISTS ${lammps_src_dir}/${FILENAME})
             message(FATAL_ERROR "\n########################################################################\n"
                                   "Found package(s) installed by the make-based build system\n"
diff --git a/doc/src/Packages_details.rst b/doc/src/Packages_details.rst
index 5cf4483714..8a4ad9122c 100644
--- a/doc/src/Packages_details.rst
+++ b/doc/src/Packages_details.rst
@@ -1791,7 +1791,9 @@ A pair style and compute for Proper Orthogonal Descriptors (POD). POD
 is a methodology for deriving descriptors based on the Karhuen-Loeve
 expansion. The ML-POD package provides an efficient implementation for 
 running simulations with POD potentials, along with fitting the potentials
-natively in LAMMPS.
+natively in LAMMPS. If you want to use the fitting functionality in `compute_podfit`,
+you must install the LAPACK library on your machine, which will be included in
+your build via `CMakeLists.txt`
 
 **Authors:**
 
diff --git a/doc/src/Packages_list.rst b/doc/src/Packages_list.rst
index 605c00e1c6..439a066737 100644
--- a/doc/src/Packages_list.rst
+++ b/doc/src/Packages_list.rst
@@ -302,7 +302,7 @@ whether an extra library is needed to build and use the package:
      - Proper orthogonal decomposition potentials
      - :doc:`pair pod <pair_pod>`
      - pod
-     - no
+     - ext
    * - :ref:`ML-QUIP <PKG-ML-QUIP>`
      - QUIP/libatoms interface
      - :doc:`pair_style quip <pair_quip>`