Re: gsltest problems

[Brian Gough <bjg at network-theory dot co dot uk>]

That's bizarre. If you have the chance can you try cutting and pasting
the C program out of gsl.m4 and running it under the debugger to see
the line where it's going wrong. Thanks.

William Brower writes:
 > Personally, I like the GSL and it's "nail pounding"
 > qualities. Thanks, guys, great job!
 > 
 > Now...I have a strange gsl.m4 issue when autoconf'ing
 > my app and requiring GSL via my configure.in. Have only
 > seen this behavior on SGI O2 IRIX6.5. The version numbers
 > get mangled somehow (my_strdup?). I've include the
 > configure.in and output of the configure command as
 > well as some version info. 
 > 
 > Note that everything builds OK if I instead configure
 > with --disable-gsltest. That's getting me by for now.
 > 
 > Thanks,
 > Bill
 > 
 > ----------
 > %echo $SHELL
 > /bin/tcsh
 > 
 > % uname -a
 > IRIX donnas-o2 6.5 01200533 IP32
 > 
 > % autoconf --version
 > Autoconf version 2.13
 > 
 > % automake --version
 > automake (GNU automake) 1.4
 > 
 > % gcc --version
 > 2.8.1
 > 
 > % gsl-config --version
 > 0.6
 > 
 > % gsl-config --libs
 > -L/usr/local/lib -lgsl -lm
 > 
 > 
 > Relavent content of configure.in:
 > 
 > AC_INIT(reconf)
 > AM_CONFIG_HEADER(config.h)
 > AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(omni,0.4)
 > #
 > AC_PROG_CC
 > AC_PROG_RANLIB
 > #
 > AC_CHECK_LIB(pthread,main,[have_pthread=true],[have_pthread=false])
 > AM_CONDITIONAL(HAVE_PTHREAD, test x$have_pthread = xtrue)
 > #
 > AM_PATH_GSL(0.6.0,[have_gsl=true],[have_gsl=false])
 > AM_CONDITIONAL(HAVE_GSL, test x$have_gsl = xtrue)
 > 
 > Output of configure:
 > 
 > % ./configure --prefix=/usr/people/wb/work
 > creating cache ./config.cache
 > checking for a BSD compatible install... ./install-sh -c
 > checking whether build environment is sane... yes
 > checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes
 > checking for working aclocal... found
 > checking for working autoconf... found
 > checking for working automake... found
 > checking for working autoheader... found
 > checking for working makeinfo... found
 > checking for gcc... gcc
 > checking whether the C compiler (gcc -g -D_REENTRANT -Wall ) works...
 > yes
 > checking whether the C compiler (gcc -g -D_REENTRANT -Wall ) is a
 > cross-compiler... no
 > checking whether we are using GNU C... yes
 > checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
 > checking for ranlib... :
 > checking for main in -lpthread... yes
 > checking for gsl-config... /usr/local/bin/gsl-config
 > checking for GSL - version >= 0.6.0... 
 > *** 'gsl-config --version' returned 0.858993459.858993459, but the
 > minimum version
 > *** of GSL required is 0.6.0. If gsl-config is correct, then it is
 > *** best to upgrade to the required version.
 > *** If gsl-config was wrong, set the environment variable GSL_CONFIG
 > *** to point to the correct copy of gsl-config, and remove the file
 > *** config.cache before re-running configure
 > no
 > updating cache ./config.cache
 > creating ./config.status
 > creating Makefile
 > creating doc/Makefile
 > creating m4/Makefile
 > creating src/Makefile
 > ...snip...
 > creating config.h
 > 
 > 
 > --
 > William Brower  MIT Lincoln Laboratory
 > 805.355.1310    KMR Field Site, Kwajalein
 >