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Problems with GSL for shared libraries
- From: Elspeth Nickle and Ron Teather <elsp_ron at dsl dot pipex dot com>
- To: gsl-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 00:57:00 +0100
- Subject: Problems with GSL for shared libraries
I want to use the GSL with shared libraries. I am running MacOS 10.3. So I followed the instructions in the INSTALL file for GSL but now I have this error message:
Elspeth-Nickles-Computer:/gsl-1.4 ejn$ ./autogen.sh
aclocal: couldn't open `configure.in': No such file or directory
automake: couldn't open `configure.in': No such file or directory
-Here are the instructions I followed.
To build shared libraries you can install MacOS X versions of libtool,
automake and autoconf, and then reconfigure:
1. Get the fink packaging tool (http://fink.sourceforge.net)
2, Install fink's libtool14, automake, autoconf25.
3. Regenerate GSL's configuration using ./autogen.sh in the
top-level directory.
4. ./configure, make
-Here’s what happened when I followed the instructions. I got the fink packaging tool no problem.
Then, when I tried to download autoconf 25, I got the message reproduced below. So I installed autoconf2.5 instead.
“Elspeth-Nickles-Computer:~ ejn$ sudo apt-get install autoconf25
Password:
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Package autoconf25 has no available version, but exists in the database.
This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and
never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents
of sources.list
However the following packages replace it:
autoconf2.5 autoconf
E: Package autoconf25 has no installation candidate”
When I tried to download automake, I got the message reproduced below. So I installed automake1.4.
“Package automake has no available version, but exists in the database.
This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and
never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents
of sources.list
However the following packages replace it:
automake1.7 automake1.6 automake1.4
E: Package automake has no installation candidate”
It was after this that I returned to the gsl-1.4 directory and ran the ./autogen.sh command which produced the error message. Is there anyone who can tell me how to get around this? I would be very grateful for any help.
Elspeth Nickle