Merge pull request #170 from boegel/v1.3.x

bump version to v1.3.1dev
Merge branch 'v1.3.x' into develop
fix configure step for Bowtie, $CPP is not defined
Merge pull request #185 from boegel/v1.4.x

fix configure step for Bowtie, $CPP is not defined
CPP is actually the C++ compiler
Merge pull request #186 from boegel/v1.4.x

CPP is actually the C++ compiler
update release notes
bump version to v1.4.0rc1
fix long line
Merge pull request #187 from boegel/v1.4.x

udpated release notes for v1.4.0, and bump version
bump version to v1.4.0
bump version to v1.5.0dev
add easyblock for PSI
add numpy.dot performance test, and custom sanity check for numpy
check numpy configuration
set  environment variable to trigger fully optimized build
also use [atlas] section for OpenBLAS
added easyblock for CBLAS, required for numpy build on top of ACML
correct creating list of blas lib paths
use correct 'source' lib path