Re: GSL in octave

[Carnë Draug]

On 17 July 2016 at 10:32, Julien Bect <address@hidden> wrote:
> [...]
> This Makefile is essentially the one written by Carnë and Oliver for other
> packages, to which I made some minor changes (which, I hope, are correct,
> but I am no Makefile expert).  The first change adds a src/configure target.
> The second one enforces a lowercase package name in tarball filenames;
> apparently Octave refuses to install GSL-1.2.0.tar.gz.

The issue is probably that the package name is lowercase but the directory
name inside was uppercase.  There should not be an issue with the actual
tarball filename.

> First attempt after all this (with Octave 4.0.3 on Debian Jessie): the
> tarball fails to install with the error message reported below.  The simple
> truth is, I don't have libgsl-dev installed... but shouldn't this be
> reported by configure and therefore block the rest of the build process?
> Anyway, I don't know if this is a problem with the package or with the pkg
> function in Octave.
>

Yes, you are right.  The configure script should check that gsl is available
and fail if not.  For some packages, but not for gsl, it make sense to just
disable a set of functions.  This is a problem with the gsl package.

Carnë