Re: Test failure with gsl package / help needed

[Marco Atzeri]

On 13/09/2016 09:02, Julien Bect wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am seeing "random" test failures with the gsl package (on a Debian
> testing, x86_64-linux-gnu, Octave 4.0.3, gcc 6.1.1).

Julien,
which gsl are you suing for the build ?


On cygwin with gsl-1.16 I see:


checking for gsl_sf_legendre_deriv2_array_e... no
configure: WARNING: Some GSL special functions are missing:  mathieu_a 
mathieu_b mathieu_ce mathieu_se mathieu_Mc mathieu_Ms legendre_array 
legendre_deriv_array legendre_deriv2_array
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating config.h
make: Entering directory 
'/cygdrive/e/cyg_pub/devel/octave-forge/pkg-releases/octave-gsl-1.1.0-1.x86_64/build/gsl-1.1.0/src'
/usr/bin/mkoctfile-4.0.1.exe --verbose  gsl_sf.cc -lgsl
g++ -c   -I/usr/include/octave-4.0.1/octave/.. 
-I/usr/include/octave-4.0.1/octave -fopenmp -ggdb -O2 -pipe 
-fdebug-prefix-map=/cygdrive/e/cyg_pub/devel/octave-forge/pkg-releases/octave-gsl-1.1.0-1.x86_64/build=/usr/src/debug/octave-gsl-1.1.0-1 
-fdebug-prefix-map=/cygdrive/e/cyg_pub/devel/octave-forge/pkg-releases/octave-gsl-1.1.0-1.x86_64/src/gsl-1.1.0=/usr/src/debug/octave-gsl-1.1.0-1 
   gsl_sf.cc -o gsl_sf.o
gsl_sf.cc: In function ‘octave_value_list Flegendre_array(const 
octave_value_list&, int)’:
gsl_sf.cc:19246:3: error: ‘gsl_sf_legendre_t’ was not declared in this scope
   gsl_sf_legendre_t legnorm;
   ^
gsl_sf.cc:19248:5: error: ‘legnorm’ was not declared in this scope
     legnorm = GSL_SF_LEGENDRE_SCHMIDT;
.....


Regards
Marco