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[Duncan Murdoch]

On 13/09/2017 9:10 AM, David Brayford wrote:
> Hi Duncan,
> 
> The output of gsl-config --version
> 2.3
> 
> The output of gsl-config --cflags
> -I/lrz/sys/libraries/gsl/2.3/include
> 
> The output of gsl-config --libs
> -L/lrz/sys/libraries/gsl/2.3/lib -lgsl -lgslcblas -lm
> 
> gsl_version.h cat output
> #define GSL_VERSION "2.3"
> #define GSL_MAJOR_VERSION 2
> #define GSL_MINOR_VERSION 3
> 
> It's puzzling.

Sure is.  I can't see what would be going wrong.

Duncan Murdoch

> 
> David
> 
> On 09/13/2017 02:57 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
>> On 13/09/2017 5:23 AM, Brayford, David wrote:
>>> When I try to install gsl in R I get the error Need GSL version >=
>>> 1.12 . However, I have version 2.3 of gsl installed on the system,
>>> which is picked up earlier in the configure process (see below). Is
>>> it possible for someone to fix this error in the configure script?
>>>
>>> checking for gsl-config... /lrz/sys/libraries/gsl/2.3/bin/gsl-config
>>> checking if GSL version >= 1.12... checking for gcc... gcc
>>> checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
>>> checking whether the C compiler works... yes
>>> checking whether we are cross compiling... no
>>> checking for suffix of executables...
>>> checking for suffix of object files... o
>>> checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
>>> checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
>>> checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
>>> configure: error: Need GSL version >= 1.12
>>> ERROR: configuration failed for package �gsl�
>>>
>>
>>
>> As Berend said, this should be talked about with the maintainer. It
>> would be helpful if you could show more detail of the test that failed.
>>
>> For example, what does
>>
>> /lrz/sys/libraries/gsl/2.3/bin/gsl-config --version --cflags
>>
>> print?  For me, the second line from gsl-config is
>>
>> -I/usr/local/Cellar/gsl/1.16/include
>>
>> and I can see using
>>
>> less /usr/local/Cellar/gsl/1.16/include/gsl/gsl_version.h
>>
>> that the macros are defined as
>>
>> #define GSL_VERSION "1.16"
>> #define GSL_MAJOR_VERSION 1
>> #define GSL_MINOR_VERSION 16
>>
>> Presumably you'll get something else...
>>
>> Duncan Murdoch
>>
>