Re: GSL in octave

[Julien Bect]

Le 19/07/2016 à 04:09, Susi Lehtola a écrit :

Concerning the dependencies, the DESCRIPTION file only mentions "octave
(>= 2.9.7)".

a) Can you really build on such an old release of Octave? Can anyone try
on 3.8.x? 3.6.x?

I just tried on 3.4.6 (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6) and it seems to build just fine. But, I noticed that the version of gsl (1.13) is a bit too old for the wrappers to build, since some function APIs have changed in GSL 2.

b) Shouldn't there be a depency on the gsl library? Which version of gsl
do we need to require?

I guess it'd be safe to require GSL version 2. GSL version specific templates sound a bit too much hassle...

Hi Susi,

I think it's time to start discussing each separate each on a dedicated bug report, in order to properly keep track of all of them.

I have created a bug reported concerning the gsl dependency issue:

http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?48557

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Julien