On 27 April 2010 at 12:32, Les Schaffer wrote: | Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | | | ========== | | Checking whether /usr/lib/libgslcblas.a is compiled with -fPIC | | Checking whether /usr/lib/libgsl.a is compiled with -fPIC | | | Maybe you or ROOT want the _shared libraries_ ending in .so rather than the | static ones ending in .a ? | | | | | as you can see from the ROOT configure script, they are checking for static | libraries. your /usr/lib/libgsl.a checks out fine but /usr/lib/libgslcblas.a, | according to *their* check, does not have -fPIC enabled.
libgslcblas is just a convenience library -- you can drop it transparently and use Atlas or any other BLAS implementation. So to me this is still a ROOT issue and not a bug in the gsl package. | according to ROOT docs here http://root.cern.ch/root/html/ | MATH_MATHMORE_Index.html : | | """ | MathMore (and its ROOT CINT dictionary) can be built within ROOT whenever a GSL | library is found in the system. Optionally the GSL library and header file | location can be specified in the ROOT configure script with configure | --with-gsl-incdir=... --with-gsl-libdir=.... MathMore links with the GSL static | libraries. On some platform (like Linux x86_64) GSL needs to be compiled with | the option --with-pic. | """ | | thanks for *FAST* response. | | Les -- Regards, Dirk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
