Re: OsX Mavericks GSL install error

[Ben Abbott]

On Feb 16, 2014, at 6:19 PM, seub4604 <address@hidden> wrote:

> 
>>> http://downloads.sourceforge.net/octave/gsl-1.0.8.tar.gz?download
> 
> Ok, after downloading that, and making sure it was in the correct directory,
> this is what happens:
> 
>>> pkg install gsl-1.0.8.tar.gz
> coupling_3j.cc:19:24: fatal error: gsl/gsl_sf.h: No such file or directory
> compilation terminated.
> make: *** [coupling_3j.oct] Error 1
> /bin/sh buildgsl_sf.sh
> /usr/local/octave/3.8.0/bin/mkoctfile-3.8.0 -DHAVE_OCTAVE_38 -v 
> coupling_3j.cc -lgsl
> /usr/local/octave/3.8.0/bin/g++-mp-4.7 -c -fPIC
> -I/usr/local/octave/3.8.0/include/octave-3.8.0/octave/..
> -I/usr/local/octave/3.8.0/include/octave-3.8.0/octave
> -I/usr/local/octave/3.8.0/include -pipe -Os -m64 -D_THREAD_SAFE -pthread
> -DHAVE_OCTAVE_38 coupling_3j.cc -o coupling_3j.o
> 
> pkg: error running `make' for the gsl package.
> error: called from 'configure_make' in file
> /usr/local/octave/3.8.0/share/octave/3.8.0/m/pkg/private/configure_make.m
> near line 82, column 9
> error: called from:
> error:   /usr/local/octave/3.8.0/share/octave/3.8.0/m/pkg/private/install.m
> at line 199, column 5
> error:   /usr/local/octave/3.8.0/share/octave/3.8.0/m/pkg/pkg.m at line 394,
> column 9

Did you install gsl yet?  As Marius indicated ...

        cd gsl-1.16
        ./configure
        make
        sudo make install

All of this would be a lot easier if you used a package management system, like 
Fink or Macports.

Ben