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Re: [Help-gsl] GSL Installation problem
From: |
Sumit Adhikari |
Subject: |
Re: [Help-gsl] GSL Installation problem |
Date: |
Tue, 6 Oct 2009 11:54:47 +0530 |
Hello,
What is the result of 'which make' ?
BR,
Sumit
On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Hongzheng Wang <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Seems like you don't have make installed in your system. Just refer
> to your system's package manager and find which package provides GNU
> make
>
> On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 1:07 AM, syed raza <address@hidden>
> wrote:
> > Thank you so much dear Marco for your detail email reply.
> > i have tried what you advised me as
> >
> > $ cd /home/marco
> > $ mkdir -p var/build
> > $ cd var/build
> > $ tar --extract --gzip --verbose --file=/home/marco/gsl-1.9.tar.gz
> > $ cd gsl-1.9
> >
> > $ ./configure --disable-static --enable-shared
> >
> > up to this point it works error free all the tar(command) and configure
> > done successfully
> >
> >
> > but when i try the command
> >
> > $ make
> >
> > it tells me
> >
> > cant found make command .
> >
> > in the gsl-1.9 directory i have the the makefile .
> >
> > please let me know what could be the problem .
> >
> > i am using Mandriva spring 2009.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Shahid
> >
> >
> >
> > On 10/2/09, Marco Maggi <address@hidden> wrote:
> >>
> >> "syed raza" wrote:
> >> > I want to compile a program of simple Matrix using gcc and
> >> > GSL.
> >>
> >> Ciao, in what follows I assume you are a beginner with
> >> GNU+Linux platforms, so bear with it if I write stuff you
> >> already know. There are a lot of things to say and it is
> >> difficult to have this exchange through email; anyway, let's
> >> give it a try.
> >>
> >> If you do a Google search for "how to compile and install
> >> a program under linux", you will find a number of tutorials
> >> about how to compile and install programs; I suggest that
> >> you read some of them.
> >>
> >> Now for the specific task of compiling and installing the
> >> GSL: first, you should unpack the archive "gsl-1.9.tar.gz"
> >> in a temporary directory.
> >>
> >> On my system, my user name is "marco", so my home
> >> directory pathname is "/home/marco"; in everything below I
> >> use this pathname, you should use your own home directory
> >> pathname. When I build a GSL package I do it in the
> >> temporary directory "/home/marco/var/build". It goes like
> >> this, assuming that "gsl-1.9.tar.gz" is a file under
> >> "/home/marco":
> >>
> >> $ cd /home/marco
> >> $ mkdir -p var/build
> >> $ cd var/build
> >> $ tar --extract --gzip --verbose --file=/home/marco/gsl-1.9.tar.gz
> >> $ cd gsl-1.9
> >> $ ./configure --disable-static --enable-shared
> >> $ make
> >>
> >> if everything works the GSL is configured and built by the
> >> last two commands; we can verify that the building worked by
> >> running the tests:
> >>
> >> $ make check
> >>
> >> you should see a lot of compiler invocations and messages
> >> like:
> >>
> >> =============
> >> 1 test passed
> >> =============
> >>
> >> meaning that a test program was run and successfully
> >> executed. Running the tests may take some minute.
> >>
> >> Now we have to install the GSL; we configured it with the
> >> default setting for the destination directory, so it will be
> >> installed under the "/usr/local" directory hierarchy.
> >>
> >> First, you have to make sure that "/usr/local" is in a
> >> hard disk partition mounted with writable access
> >> permissions. For example, on my system running the
> >> following command:
> >>
> >> $ mount | grep /usr/local
> >>
> >> prints:
> >>
> >> /dev/sda11 on /usr/local type ext3 (rw,nodev,errors=remount-ro)
> >>
> >> the first "rw" in the parentheses shows that "/usr/local" is
> >> writable. There is too much to be told about how your
> >> system may be configured; so, let's assume that your
> >> "/usr/local" is writable, and come back to it only if the
> >> installation fails.
> >>
> >> To install GSL you need to acquire root permissions, this
> >> means use the "su" program or "sudo" program. "sudo" needs
> >> to be configured, while "su" should work for you; let's use
> >> "su". If you do a Google search on "how to use su on linux"
> >> you should find some tutorials on it.
> >>
> >> Basically to install GSL you should do:
> >>
> >> $ su
> >> $ make install
> >> $ /sbin/ldconfig
> >> $ exit
> >>
> >> the "su" program asks you to type in the "root" password; do
> >> it and "su" will run a shell under "root" privileges; run
> >> "make install" and "ldconfig" and finally type "exit" to
> >> exit the privileged shell.
> >>
> >> The location of "ldconfig" may vary on your Linux system,
> >> I do not know where Mandriva places it; it may be in one of
> >> the following locations:
> >>
> >> /sbin/ldconfig
> >> /usr/sbin/ldconfig
> >>
> >> or some other place. Find it and run it with "root"
> >> privileges.
> >>
> >> Now, on to compiling a program linked to the GSL library.
> >> The source file of your program is called "matrixExp.c",
> >> fine; first put it under a temporary directory:
> >>
> >> $ cd <where the file is>
> >> $ mkdir /home/marco/var/tmp
> >> $ mv matrixExp.c /home/marco/var/tmp
> >> $ cd /home/marco/var/tmp
> >>
> >> Your program looks fine to me, meaning that I successfully
> >> compiled and run it on my system with the commands below.
> >> When linking to the GSL library, you have to tell the
> >> compiler how to use it; the GSL package installs a script
> >> "gsl-config" which we can use to acquire the informations we
> >> need. You can try to run this:
> >>
> >> $ gsl-config --cflags --libs
> >>
> >> on my system it prints:
> >>
> >> -I/usr/local/include
> >> -L/usr/local/lib -lgsl -lgslcblas -lm
> >>
> >> these are all options to be put on the command line of GCC;
> >> so let's try:
> >>
> >> $ gcc -I/usr/local/include -L/usr/local/lib -lgsl -lgslcblas -lm -o
> >> matrixExp matrixExp.c
> >>
> >> it should compile the program and create an executable named
> >> "matrixExp"; equivalently, using the features of the shell
> >> you are running you could do:
> >>
> >> $ gcc $(gsl-config --cflags --libs) -o matrixExp matrixExp.c
> >>
> >> To run the program:
> >>
> >> $ ./matrixExp
> >>
> >> which prints:
> >>
> >> differences = 0 (should be zero)
> >>
> >> I hope all of this helps you; to have further help, you
> >> can reply to me by private email.
> >> --
> >> Marco Maggi
> >>
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> >
>
>
>
> --
> HZ
>
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