diff --git a/.drone.yml b/.drone.yml
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+---
+kind: pipeline
+type: docker
+name: buildqpms-alpine-preinstlibs
+
+workspace:
+  path: /home/qpmsbuild/qpms
+
+# don't run in master until the python/lapacke linking problem is resolved
+trigger:
+  branch:
+    exclude: 
+      - master
+
+steps:
+- name: chown
+  image: qpms/buildenv/alpine/pkgdnumlib
+  pull: never
+  commands:
+    - chown -R qpmsbuild.qpmsbuild .
+- name: submodules
+  image: qpms/buildenv/alpine/pkgdnumlib
+  pull: never
+  user: qpmsbuild
+  commands:
+    - git submodule init
+    - git submodule update
+- name: build
+  image: qpms/buildenv/alpine/pkgdnumlib
+  pull: never
+  user: qpmsbuild
+  commands:
+  - cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$HOME/.local .
+  - make install
+  - export LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/.local/lib
+  - python3 setup.py install --user
+  - cd examples/rectangular/modes
+  - pip3 install --user matplotlib #needed to run the example
+  - export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/.local/lib
+  - ./01a_realfreq_svd.sh
+
+---
+kind: pipeline
+type: docker
+name: buildqpms-debian-preinstlibs
+
+workspace:
+  path: /home/qpmsbuild/qpms
+
+steps:
+- name: chown
+  image: qpms/buildenv/debian/pkgdnumlib
+  pull: never
+  commands:
+    - chown -R qpmsbuild.qpmsbuild .
+- name: submodules
+  image: qpms/buildenv/debian/pkgdnumlib
+  pull: never
+  user: qpmsbuild
+  commands:
+    - git submodule init
+    - git submodule update
+- name: build
+  image: qpms/buildenv/debian/pkgdnumlib
+  pull: never
+  user: qpmsbuild
+  commands:
+  - cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/home/qpmsbuild/.local .
+  - make install
+  - export LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/.local/lib
+  - python3 setup.py install --user
+  - cd examples/rectangular/modes
+  - pip3 install --user matplotlib #needed to run the example
+  - export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/.local/lib
+  - ./01a_realfreq_svd.sh
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+[![Build Status](https://drone.perkele.eu/api/badges/QPMS/qpms/status.svg)](https://drone.perkele.eu/QPMS/qpms)
+
 QPMS README
 ===========
 
diff --git a/ci/00_make_dockerfiles.sh b/ci/00_make_dockerfiles.sh
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+#!/bin/sh
+DP=Dockerfile_parts
+# "Build environment" Dockerfiles
+cat >Dockerfile.benv.debian.bnl ${DP}/00_common.debian ${DP}/01_numlibs.built
+cat >Dockerfile.benv.debian.pnl ${DP}/00_common.debian ${DP}/01_numlibs.debian.pkgd
+cat >Dockerfile.benv.alpine.bnl ${DP}/00_common.alpine ${DP}/01_numlibs.built
+cat >Dockerfile.benv.alpine.pnl ${DP}/00_common.alpine ${DP}/01_numlibs.alpine.pkgd
diff --git a/ci/01_make_buildenv_images.sh b/ci/01_make_buildenv_images.sh
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+++ b/ci/01_make_buildenv_images.sh
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+#!/bin/sh
+docker build -t qpms/buildenv/debian/builtnumlib -f Dockerfile.benv.debian.bnl .
+docker build -t qpms/buildenv/debian/pkgdnumlib -f Dockerfile.benv.debian.pnl .
+docker build -t qpms/buildenv/alpine/builtnumlib -f Dockerfile.benv.alpine.bnl .
+docker build -t qpms/buildenv/alpine/pkgdnumlib -f Dockerfile.benv.alpine.pnl .
diff --git a/ci/Dockerfile_parts/00_common.alpine b/ci/Dockerfile_parts/00_common.alpine
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+++ b/ci/Dockerfile_parts/00_common.alpine
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+FROM alpine:latest AS commondeps
+RUN apk update \
+ && apk add cmake python3-dev py3-pip gcc g++ wget git make libc-dev \
+ && adduser -D qpmsbuild
+
diff --git a/ci/Dockerfile_parts/00_common.debian b/ci/Dockerfile_parts/00_common.debian
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+++ b/ci/Dockerfile_parts/00_common.debian
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+FROM debian:stable AS commondeps
+RUN apt-get update \
+ && apt-get -y install --no-install-recommends build-essential cmake python3 python3-pip git wget python3-dev \
+ && apt-get clean \
+ && useradd -m qpmsbuild
+
diff --git a/ci/Dockerfile_parts/01_numlibs.alpine.pkgd b/ci/Dockerfile_parts/01_numlibs.alpine.pkgd
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+++ b/ci/Dockerfile_parts/01_numlibs.alpine.pkgd
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+FROM commondeps AS numlibs
+# openblas-dev adds gfortran :(
+RUN apk add openblas-dev gsl-dev
diff --git a/ci/Dockerfile_parts/01_numlibs.built b/ci/Dockerfile_parts/01_numlibs.built
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+FROM commondeps AS buildopenblas
+USER qpmsbuild
+RUN cd && git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/xianyi/OpenBLAS.git \
+ && cd OpenBLAS && make \
+ && make install PREFIX=$HOME/.local/ \
+ && make clean \
+ && cd .. && rm -rf OpenBLAS
+
+FROM buildopenblas AS numlibs
+USER qpmsbuild
+RUN cd && wget https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gsl/gsl-latest.tar.gz \
+ && tar xf gsl-latest.tar.gz \
+ && cd $( tar tf gsl-latest.tar.gz | head -n 1 ) \
+ && ./configure --prefix=$HOME/.local \
+ && make && make install && make clean \
+ && cd .. && rm -rf $OLDPWD gsl-latest.tar.gz
diff --git a/ci/Dockerfile_parts/01_numlibs.debian.pkgd b/ci/Dockerfile_parts/01_numlibs.debian.pkgd
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+++ b/ci/Dockerfile_parts/01_numlibs.debian.pkgd
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+FROM commondeps AS numlibs
+RUN apt-get -y install --no-install-recommends libopenblas-dev libgsl-dev liblapacke-dev \
+ && apt-get clean
+
diff --git a/ci/Dockerfile_parts/02_buildqpms b/ci/Dockerfile_parts/02_buildqpms
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+++ b/ci/Dockerfile_parts/02_buildqpms
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+FROM numlibs AS buildqpms
+USER qpmsbuild
+ENV LD_LIBRARY_PATH /home/qpmsbuild/.local/lib
+ENV LIBRARY_PATH /home/qpmsbuild/.local/lib
+ENV C_INCLUDE_PATH /home/qpmsbuild/.local/include
+RUN cd && git clone --depth 1 https://repo.or.cz/qpms.git \
+ && cd qpms && git submodule init && git submodule update 
+RUN cd ~/qpms && cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$HOME/.local . \
+ && make \
+ && make install
+RUN cd ~/qpms && python3 setup.py install --user
+
diff --git a/ci/drone.yml b/ci/drone.yml
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+../.drone.yml
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