Re: Building PSPP on Fedora

[Ben Pfaff]

Alan Mead <address@hidden> writes:

> I looked at the line that was failing ("gcc -o conftest -g -O2
> conftest.c -lgslcblas  -lm  >&5") and I cannot find a file called
> 'conftest.c' to try to replciate this behavior on the command line.
> Does configure copy it from somewhere?

configure creates it.  It puts its contents in the config.log, in
the part that you quoted to me.  It's a do-nothing program whose
only purpose is to try to link against -lgslcblas to make sure
that the link works.

You can use
    int main (void) { return 0; }
as an acceptable substitute for this purpose.
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