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Re: [Help-gsl] GSL Installation problem
From: |
Hongzheng Wang |
Subject: |
Re: [Help-gsl] GSL Installation problem |
Date: |
Tue, 6 Oct 2009 13:58:16 +0800 |
Hi,
Seems like you don't have make installed in your system. Just refer
to your system's package manager and find which package provides GNU
make
On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 1:07 AM, syed raza <address@hidden> wrote:
> Thank you so much dear Marco for your detail email reply.
> i have tried what you advised me as
>
> $ cd /home/marco
> $ mkdir -p var/build
> $ cd var/build
> $ tar --extract --gzip --verbose --file=/home/marco/gsl-1.9.tar.gz
> $ cd gsl-1.9
>
> $ ./configure --disable-static --enable-shared
>
> up to this point it works error free all the tar(command) and configure
> done successfully
>
>
> but when i try the command
>
> $ make
>
> it tells me
>
> cant found make command .
>
> in the gsl-1.9 directory i have the the makefile .
>
> please let me know what could be the problem .
>
> i am using Mandriva spring 2009.
>
> Regards
>
> Shahid
>
>
>
> On 10/2/09, Marco Maggi <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> "syed raza" wrote:
>> > I want to compile a program of simple Matrix using gcc and
>> > GSL.
>>
>> Ciao, in what follows I assume you are a beginner with
>> GNU+Linux platforms, so bear with it if I write stuff you
>> already know. There are a lot of things to say and it is
>> difficult to have this exchange through email; anyway, let's
>> give it a try.
>>
>> If you do a Google search for "how to compile and install
>> a program under linux", you will find a number of tutorials
>> about how to compile and install programs; I suggest that
>> you read some of them.
>>
>> Now for the specific task of compiling and installing the
>> GSL: first, you should unpack the archive "gsl-1.9.tar.gz"
>> in a temporary directory.
>>
>> On my system, my user name is "marco", so my home
>> directory pathname is "/home/marco"; in everything below I
>> use this pathname, you should use your own home directory
>> pathname. When I build a GSL package I do it in the
>> temporary directory "/home/marco/var/build". It goes like
>> this, assuming that "gsl-1.9.tar.gz" is a file under
>> "/home/marco":
>>
>> $ cd /home/marco
>> $ mkdir -p var/build
>> $ cd var/build
>> $ tar --extract --gzip --verbose --file=/home/marco/gsl-1.9.tar.gz
>> $ cd gsl-1.9
>> $ ./configure --disable-static --enable-shared
>> $ make
>>
>> if everything works the GSL is configured and built by the
>> last two commands; we can verify that the building worked by
>> running the tests:
>>
>> $ make check
>>
>> you should see a lot of compiler invocations and messages
>> like:
>>
>> =============
>> 1 test passed
>> =============
>>
>> meaning that a test program was run and successfully
>> executed. Running the tests may take some minute.
>>
>> Now we have to install the GSL; we configured it with the
>> default setting for the destination directory, so it will be
>> installed under the "/usr/local" directory hierarchy.
>>
>> First, you have to make sure that "/usr/local" is in a
>> hard disk partition mounted with writable access
>> permissions. For example, on my system running the
>> following command:
>>
>> $ mount | grep /usr/local
>>
>> prints:
>>
>> /dev/sda11 on /usr/local type ext3 (rw,nodev,errors=remount-ro)
>>
>> the first "rw" in the parentheses shows that "/usr/local" is
>> writable. There is too much to be told about how your
>> system may be configured; so, let's assume that your
>> "/usr/local" is writable, and come back to it only if the
>> installation fails.
>>
>> To install GSL you need to acquire root permissions, this
>> means use the "su" program or "sudo" program. "sudo" needs
>> to be configured, while "su" should work for you; let's use
>> "su". If you do a Google search on "how to use su on linux"
>> you should find some tutorials on it.
>>
>> Basically to install GSL you should do:
>>
>> $ su
>> $ make install
>> $ /sbin/ldconfig
>> $ exit
>>
>> the "su" program asks you to type in the "root" password; do
>> it and "su" will run a shell under "root" privileges; run
>> "make install" and "ldconfig" and finally type "exit" to
>> exit the privileged shell.
>>
>> The location of "ldconfig" may vary on your Linux system,
>> I do not know where Mandriva places it; it may be in one of
>> the following locations:
>>
>> /sbin/ldconfig
>> /usr/sbin/ldconfig
>>
>> or some other place. Find it and run it with "root"
>> privileges.
>>
>> Now, on to compiling a program linked to the GSL library.
>> The source file of your program is called "matrixExp.c",
>> fine; first put it under a temporary directory:
>>
>> $ cd <where the file is>
>> $ mkdir /home/marco/var/tmp
>> $ mv matrixExp.c /home/marco/var/tmp
>> $ cd /home/marco/var/tmp
>>
>> Your program looks fine to me, meaning that I successfully
>> compiled and run it on my system with the commands below.
>> When linking to the GSL library, you have to tell the
>> compiler how to use it; the GSL package installs a script
>> "gsl-config" which we can use to acquire the informations we
>> need. You can try to run this:
>>
>> $ gsl-config --cflags --libs
>>
>> on my system it prints:
>>
>> -I/usr/local/include
>> -L/usr/local/lib -lgsl -lgslcblas -lm
>>
>> these are all options to be put on the command line of GCC;
>> so let's try:
>>
>> $ gcc -I/usr/local/include -L/usr/local/lib -lgsl -lgslcblas -lm -o
>> matrixExp matrixExp.c
>>
>> it should compile the program and create an executable named
>> "matrixExp"; equivalently, using the features of the shell
>> you are running you could do:
>>
>> $ gcc $(gsl-config --cflags --libs) -o matrixExp matrixExp.c
>>
>> To run the program:
>>
>> $ ./matrixExp
>>
>> which prints:
>>
>> differences = 0 (should be zero)
>>
>> I hope all of this helps you; to have further help, you
>> can reply to me by private email.
>> --
>> Marco Maggi
>>
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