Re: GSL in octave

[Susi Lehtola]

On 07/17/2016 11:00 PM, Julien Bect wrote:
> Hi Susi,
>
> As Marco and Tatsuro already told you, this tarball is wrong because the
> configure file is missing.
>
> I have provided a Makefile that handles the packaging process, please
> use it.  You juste have to do "make dist" and the tarball will be ready
> in the target subdirectory.  Unless something is wrong with the
> Makefile, bootstrap should be run automatically and therefore you should
> have configure in the src directory.

But I *did* run bootstrap before running make dist. Well, I found the 
culprit:

$ ls src/configure
src/configure
$ make dist
$ ls target/gsl-1.2.0/src/configure
ls: cannot access 'target/gsl-1.2.0/src/configure': No such file or 
directory

I fixed the makefile to run bootstrap like in the image package.
Now it works properly.

Generating tests may be somewhat problematic, since the package is just 
a wrapper around gsl, so it will be more a test of gsl than of the 
wrapper. And there's a huge number of functions, and there's the 
question of how to obtain reference values for the tests...
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Susi Lehtola
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