Re: [Help-gsl] GSL Installation problem

[Sumit Adhikari]

Hello,
   What is the result of 'which make' ?
BR,
Sumit


On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Hongzheng Wang <address@hidden> wrote:

> 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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