Re: Test failure with gsl package / help needed

[Tatsuro MATSUOKA]

----- Original Message -----
>From: Julien Bect 
>To: octave-maintainers 
>Date: 2016/9/14, Wed 01:04
>Subject: Re: Test failure with gsl package / help needed
> 
>
>Le 13/09/2016 à 10:53, Tatsuro MATSUOKA a écrit :
>
>I have tried on windows (octave-4.0.3 with gsl-2.1) but
I could not install gsl package recent tip. changeset:   186:3a1ef328fad6
tag:         tip
user:        Julien Bect  date:        Tue Sep 13 08:39:04 2016 +0200
summary:     src/generate_template.sh: Source formatting. I will try later on 
Ubuntu and report results. 
>>pkg install -verbose gsl-1.1.0.zip 
>>mkdir (C:\Users\MATSUO~1\AppData\Local\Temp\oct-iJok9b)
untar (gsl-1.1.0.zip, C:\Users\MATSUO~1\AppData\Local\Temp\oct-iJok9b)
checking for mkoctfile... C:/octave/octave-4.0.3-x64/bin/mkoctfile-4.0.3.exe 
--ve
rbose
checking for octave... C:/octave/octave-4.0.3-x64/bin/octave-4.0.3.exe
checking for Octave's canonical_host_type... error: writing file 
'C:\.octave_hist
': Permission denied
error: ignoring octave_execution_exception while preparing to exit
x86_64-w64-mingw32
>I don't know why you get this error.  But apparently
    canoncial_host_type gets set correctly, so it is not a real problem.
>
>
>[...SNIP...] configure: WARNING: Some GSL special functions are missing:  
>legendre_Plm_array l
egendre_Plm_deriv_array legendre_sphPlm_array legendre_sphPlm_deriv_array
>I am a little surprised here.  I use GSL 2.1 too, and these
    functions are available...


Hmmm! I also see the same WARNING in ubuntu with gsl-2.1 in my system.
Perhaps my generation of gsl-2.1 has a problem.

>
>[...SNIP...] 
>C:\Users\MATSUO~1\AppData\Local\Temp\oct-iJok9b\gsl-1.1.0\src/gsl_sf.cc:19170: 
>un
defined reference to `gsl_sf_legendre_sphPlm_deriv_array'
>This should be fixed now.  Please try again if you can.
>


I have confirmed the fix.


I have tried the test_gslsf by
>> for i=1:100; fprintf('%d ',i); test_gslsf, endfor

No random errors were observed on windows and ubuntu.

Tatsuro