Re: Building PSPP on Fedora

[Ben Pfaff]

Alan Mead <address@hidden> writes:

> Ben Pfaff wrote:
>> Alan Mead <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>
>>> I looked at the line that was failing ("gcc -o conftest -g -O2
>>> conftest.c -lgslcblas  -lm  >&5") and I cannot find a file called
>>> 'conftest.c' to try to replciate this behavior on the command line.
>>> Does configure copy it from somewhere?
>>>
>>
>> configure creates it.  It puts its contents in the config.log, in
>> the part that you quoted to me.  It's a do-nothing program whose
>> only purpose is to try to link against -lgslcblas to make sure
>> that the link works.
>>
>> You can use
>>     int main (void) { return 0; }
>> as an acceptable substitute for this purpose.
>>
>
> When I execute it by hand, I only get an error from the redirection:
>
> address@hidden pspp-0.4.0]$ gcc -o conftest -g -O2 conftest.c -lgslcblas
> -lm >&5

You should omit the redirection when you execute it by hand.
configure uses it to send any output to config.log, but you don't
have a descriptor set up that way.
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