Re: GSL in octave

[Nir Krakauer]

On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 4:45 PM, Julien Bect <address@hidden> wrote:

Le 21/07/2016 à 08:15, Susi Lehtola a écrit :

On 07/20/2016 01:00 PM, Julien Bect wrote:

A now few more questions and remarks...

1) When I install the package I have this warning:

warning: doc_cache_create: unusable help text found in file
'legendre_sphPlm_array'

Yes, I don't really understand where this comes from. I think my most recent addition of most of the _array functions also resulted in some "unusable help text". Help is appreciated.

Could someone familiar with oct-files, doctrings, doc_cache_create, etc. please give a hand ?

Just clone the gsl repo : https://sourceforge.net/p/octave/gsl/ci/default/tree/, create a tarball using "make dist", and then install target/gsl-1.1.0.tar.gz using "pkg -install".

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Julien

Installing works for me in OS X Homebrew, and I don't get this warning. "help legendre_sphPlm_array" produces what I assume was intended:

 -- Loadable Function: Y = legendre_sphPlm_array (LMAX, M, X)

     This function computes an array of normalized associated Legendre

     functions sqrt((2l+1)/(4*pi)) * sqrt((l-m)!/(l+m)!) Plm (x) for m

     >= 0, l = |m|, ..., lmax, |x| <= 1.0

     This function is from the GNU Scientific Library, see

     `http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/' for documentation.

A warning I do get during installing is

configure: WARNING: Some GSL special functions are missing:  mathieu_a mathieu_b mathieu_ce mathieu_se mathieu_Mc mathieu_Ms

Thanks to Susi and all for your work on this!