Re: gsl package: undefined symbol: cblas_ctrmv

[lo]

On Wednesday 04 August 2010 21:14:38 Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
> On 4 August 2010 13:50, lo <address@hidden> wrote:
> > in fact, it would be nice if this function were part of octave,
> > since it is also part of Matlab, but I refrain from opening a request
> > since one could argue that there is an octave package for that;
> 
> Ask not what your Octave can do for you... A GSL build dependency for
> Octave might be acceptable.
> 
> Anyways, the Debian package for the GSL 'Forge package is using GSL
> 1.14 and works fine.
> 
> If you need hints why, perhaps Debian's build script could be illuminating:
> 
>     
>  http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-octave/octave-gsl.git;a=blob;f=debian/rules;h
> =cc1bd1b064e0483e3a3d3c966cf05ab3c7a0ff41;hb=359fd4552fc6ffd6a0b3606b93649e
> 91e975553c
> 
> You see it just calls the generic octave-pkg Makefile which is here:
> 
>     
>  http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-octave/octave-pkg-dev.git;a=blob;f=octave-pkg
> .mk.in;h=d269194a502b611f86cd1b501fa35a1a613a2c4c;hb=c93c63e13b6d75feabd5e1
> 1329474f5e06439625
> 
> From reading it myself, it's not doing anything fancy, and in fact
> calls Octave's own pkg function with a few modifications. Does "pkg
> install" from within Octave fail for you?

pkg install gsl-1.0.8.tar.gz
under octave
works fine; no error message;

> HTH,
> - Jordi G. H.
>