[Bug-gsl] Re: gsl-1.4: minor build glitch on SGI IRIX

[Brian Gough]

Nelson H. F. Beebe writes:
 > A build of gsl-1.4 on SGI IRIX 6.5 produced this failure:
 >      ...
 >      c89 -g -Wl,-rpath -Wl,/usr/local/libn32 -o test test.o  
 > ../ieee-utils/.libs/libgslieeeutils.al
 >      ../err/.libs/libgslerr.al ../test/.libs/libgsltest.al 
 > ./.libs/libgslsys.al ../utils/.libs/libutils.al -lm
 >      ld32: ERROR   33 : Unresolved text symbol "gsl_isinf" -- 1st referenced 
 > by
 >      ../test/.libs/libgsltest.al(results.lo).
 > 
 > Examination of the code in src/infnan.c shows the problem: if
 > HAVE_IEEE_COMPARISONS is not defined (which is the case on this
 > platform), then the file fails to provide a fall-back version of
 > gsl_isinf().  I get only these symbols:
 > 

Thanks for the bug report.

Can you send me the output of ./configure and tell me what functions
IRIX provides for testing for Infs and NaNs.  Currently the GSL
configure script is looking for isinf() and isnan() -- it seems that
it didn't find isinf().

best regards,

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