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Brayford, David
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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?


David
Berend Hasselman
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Why don't you send an email to the maintainer of the package?


Berend Hasselman
Suzen, Mehmet
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Hello David,

As error message says you have a version dependency not satisfied.
"error: Need GSL version >= 1.12". If you are using Ubuntu for example
you could do;
sudo apt-get install libgsl2

Or you can compile by yourself, I am sure there are people in LRZ can
help you on this:)

Best,
Mehmet
On 13 September 2017 at 11:23, Brayford, David <David.Brayford at lrz.de> wrote:
Duncan Murdoch
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On 13/09/2017 5:23 AM, Brayford, David wrote:
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
David Brayford
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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.

David
On 09/13/2017 02:57 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
Duncan Murdoch
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On 13/09/2017 9:10 AM, David Brayford wrote:
Sure is.  I can't see what would be going wrong.

Duncan Murdoch
Peter Dalgaard
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Two ideas: 

1. The include file might be there but not the actual library (or a different version gets picked up via an -L setting)
2. The error message can be spurious and reflect a completely different problem. It looks a little odd that the ERROR does not appear immediately after "checking if GSL version >= 1.12..." (is some sort of parallel make going on, perchance?)

If push comes to shove, you may have to learn how to decipher config.log etc. to see exactly which test is failing and why.

-pd