After installing lapack and trying to build gretl, it fails one of the tests and things lapack is not installed. (Ignore the lapack-3.4.0 path - I attempted to work around the problem with the latest version.)
This show lapack installed --------------------------- Chloe@dumbopc ~/lapack-3.4.0 $ pkg-config --modversion lapack 3.2.1 Chloe@dumbopc ~/lapack-3.4.0 $ cat /usr/lib/pkgconfig/lapack.pc prefix=/usr exec_prefix=/usr libdir=${exec_prefix}/lib includedir=${prefix}/include Name: lapack Description: Linear Algebra PACKage FORTRAN 77 reference implementation Version: 3.2.1 Requires: blas URL: http://www.netlib.org/lapack/ Libs: -llapack Chloe@dumbopc ~/lapack-3.4.0 $ cat /usr/lib/pkgconfig/blas.pc prefix=/usr exec_prefix=/usr libdir=${exec_prefix}/lib includedir=${prefix}/include Name: lapack Description: Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms F77 reference implementations Version: 3.2.1 URL: http://www.netlib.org/blas Libs: -lblas Libs.private: -lm --------------------------------------- This is the error message in the log when trying to configure for gretl. ----------------------------------------------------------- configure:16010: checking for LAPACK configure:16044: gcc -o conftest.exe -I./lib/src -g -O2 conftest.c -L/usr/lib -llapack -lblas -lgfortran -lc -lc -lm >&5 configure:16044: $? = 0 configure:16044: ./conftest.exe /home/Chloe/gretl-1.9.7/conftest.exe: error while loading shared libraries: cyglapack-0.dll: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory configure:16044: $? = 127 configure: program exited with status 127 ----------------------------------------------------------- List of lapack libraries -------------------------- $ ls -l /usr/lib/*lapack* -rwxr-xr-x 1 Chloe None 4193294 Mar 29 2011 /usr/lib/cyglapack-0.dll -rw-r--r-- 1 Chloe root 13256970 Mar 29 2011 /usr/lib/liblapack.a -rwxr-xr-x 1 Chloe root 868430 Mar 29 2011 /usr/lib/liblapack.dll.a -rwxr-xr-x 1 Chloe root 927 Mar 29 2011 /usr/lib/liblapack.la /usr/lib/lapack: total 4488 -rwxr-xr-x 1 Chloe root 400910 Mar 29 2011 cygblas-0.dll -rwxr-xr-x 1 Chloe root 4193294 Mar 29 2011 cyglapack-0.dll -------------------------- Version -------- $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-5.1 dumbopc 1.7.11(0.260/5/3) 2012-02-24 14:05 i686 Cygwin -------- To reproduce, build gretl: http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple