Re: GSL in octave

[Tatsuro MATSUOKA]

> From: Julien Bect

> To: octave-maintainers
> Cc: 
> Date: 2016/7/26, Tue 15:11
> Subject: Re: GSL in octave
> 
> Le 26/07/2016 à 05:47, Tatsuro MATSUOKA a écrit :
>>  On the latest gsl tip, I have met an undefined symbol error.
>> 
>>  Platform Ubuntu 14.04 LTS amd 64 (gcc 4.8.5 and 5.3.0)
>>  Octave version 4.0.3 and 4.1.0+(8de49f15e182)
>>  gsl 1.16 (from Ubuntu repository) and gsl 2.1 (built myself).
>> 
>>  Results
>>  gsl 1.16,
>>    successful on both 4.0.3 and 4.1.0+.
>>    bessel_Jn works fine.
>> 
>>  gsl 2.1.0
>>    failure on both 4.0.3 and 4.1.0+
>>    (undefined symbol at copyfile)
>> 
>>  copyfile /tmp/oct-1a7B8Q/gsl-1.1.0/src/gsl_arr.oct 
> /tmp/oct-1a7B8Q/gsl-1.1.0/src/gsl_sf.oct 
> /tmp/oct-1a7B8Q/gsl-1.1.0/src/legendre_sphPlm_array.oct 
> /tmp/oct-1a7B8Q/gsl-1.1.0/inst/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-api-v50+
>>  warning: doc_cache_create: unusable help text found in file 
> 'gsl_arr'
>> 
> /home/tatsuro/work/octave/octave-forge/4.0.3/gsl-1.1.0/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-api-v50+/gsl_sf.oct:
>  
> failed to load: 
> /home/tatsuro/work/octave/octave-forge/4.0.3/gsl-1.1.0/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-api-v50+/gsl_sf.oct:
>  
> undefined symbol: gsl_sf_mathieu_ce_e
>> 
>>  On windows,  4.1.0+(8de49f15e182) with gsl-2.1.
>>  pkg install of gsl package works successfully.
> 
> Hi Tatsuro,
> 
> Could you please try again with the official SF repo (instead of Susi's 
> personal repo) and see if you get the same results ?
Yes. I have cloned http://hg.code.sf.net/p/octave/gsl and gotten the same 
errors.


> If you still see an "undefined symbol" problem, please send 
> configure.in, config.log, config.status.


But "pkg install" delete all files in a temporal build directory at the last 
stage 
(whether successful or not).

Tatsuro