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"gsl" does not seem to find installed GSL

4 messages · Marius Hofert, Roy Mendelssohn - NOAA Federal, Kjell Konis

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Marius Hofert
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Hi,

I installed gsl (gsl-1.16.tar.gz) via ./configure, make, make check
and sudo make install. gsl-config --version shows:

$ gsl-config --version
1.16

I then wanted to install the R package "gsl" from source:
Installing package into '/usr/local/R/library'
(as 'lib' is unspecified)
trying URL 'http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/gsl_1.9-10.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 342803 bytes (334 KB)
==================================================
downloaded 334 KB

* installing *source* package 'gsl' ...
** package 'gsl' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
checking for gsl-config... /usr/local/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'

What fails? I did the exact same thing an another MacBook Pro a couple
of months ago and it worked there (also under OS X 10.11)... this is
strange.

I found https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24781125/installing-r-gsl-package-on-mac#_=_
which goes further back but addresses more or less the same problem. I
don't understand the answer there: Do I have to set the flags CFLAGS
and LDFLAGS when configuring gsl?

Cheers,
Marius
Marius Hofert
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On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 7:02 PM, Marius Hofert wrote:
I just tried to install "gsl" on the other machine again... and it
also failed. I must have installed it under OS X 10.10 then (before
the upgrade). Is this a known issue? (how can it be solved?)
Roy Mendelssohn - NOAA Federal
# 
Just a guess but in the the config step it says:
and the version on cran is 1.9.  I am not certain why you want to install from source, but either way,  Simon has more recent versions on his web pages, the src at:

http://r.research.att.com/src/

and the libs at:

http://r.research.att.com/libs/


HTH,

-Roy
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Kjell Konis
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Hi Marius,

I have had this same problem several times. My workaround is to

1. download the source package 
2. uncompress/unarchive the package
3. delete the 2 configure scripts
4. in src, rename Makevars.in Makevars
5. edit Makevars, replace @GSL_CFLAGS@ with the output of 'gsl-config ?cflags? and replace @GSL_LIBS@ with the output of ?gsl-config ?libs'
6. R CMD INSTALL the gsl directory

Hope that works,
Kjell