diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 7c91d4ddbd..3496a4819c 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ env: == default ==
         USE_MPI=y
         USE_PYTHONCONFIG=y
         BLASOPT="-L$TRAVIS_BUILD_DIR/lib -lnwclapack -lopenblas"
-        BLAS_SIZE=8
+        BLAS_SIZE=4
         PYTHONVERSION=2.7
         PYTHONHOME=/usr
         LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$TRAVIS_BUILD_DIR/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
@@ -24,7 +24,9 @@ before_script:
         - cd $TRAVIS_BUILD_DIR && pwd && cd ..; ln -sf nwchem nwchem-6.8 && cd $NWCHEM_TOP && pwd
         - ls -lrt $TRAVIS_BUILD_DIR
         - ls -lrt $NWCHEM_TOP
+        - cd $NWCHEM_TOP/src && make nwchem_config &&  make 64_to_32 >& 6log &
         - ./travis/build_openblas.sh
+        - wait
         - cd $NWCHEM_TOP/src && make nwchem_config 
 script:
         - cd $NWCHEM_TOP/src && make  -j3 >& make.log
diff --git a/travis/build_openblas.sh b/travis/build_openblas.sh
index af3224c402..c8c638488e 100755
--- a/travis/build_openblas.sh
+++ b/travis/build_openblas.sh
@@ -2,6 +2,6 @@
 cd $TRAVIS_BUILD_DIR
 git clone -b release-0.2.21 https://github.com/xianyi/OpenBLAS.git
 cd OpenBLAS
-make -j3 PREFIX=$TRAVIS_BUILD_DIR NO_LAPACK=1 INTERFACE64=1 USE_THREAD=0 NO_CBLAS=1 NO_LAPACKE=1 DEBUG=1 NUM_THREADS=1 all >& openblas.log
+make -j3 PREFIX=$TRAVIS_BUILD_DIR  USE_THREAD=0 NO_CBLAS=1 NO_LAPACKE=1 DEBUG=1 NUM_THREADS=1 all >& openblas.log
 make PREFIX=$TRAVIS_BUILD_DIR install
 tail -4 openblas.log