Re: Building PSPP on Fedora

[Alan Mead]

Ben Pfaff wrote:
> 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.
>   

When I execute it by hand, I only get an error from the redirection:

address@hidden pspp-0.4.0]$ gcc -o conftest -g -O2 conftest.c -lgslcblas  
-lm >&5
-bash: 5: Bad file descriptor
address@hidden pspp-0.4.0]$ gcc -o conftest -g -O2 conftest.c -lgslcblas  -lm
address@hidden pspp-0.4.0]$ ls -l conftest*
-rwxrwxr-x  1 amead amead 5738 Apr 23 13:31 conftest*
-rw-rw-r--  1 amead amead   30 Apr 23 12:46 conftest.c

-Alan

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