Re: [Help-gsl] GSL Installation problem

[Hongzheng Wang]

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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