gsl libraries, Debian

[Slaven Peles]

In my experience for a Debian users it's always easier to backport from sid 
than to compile from the original sources. Besides, it's much safer too, as 
you are always able to remove the package easily, and no extra system 
configuration is required. I put my woody backported gsl-1.3 (nothing wrong 
with your packages, Dirk, indeed ;-) at: 
http://cns.physics.gatech.edu/~peles/debian/gsl/ 
just in case somebody might have some use of them. These are not apt-getable 
since I don't know how to do it (or better say I'm too lazy to figure it 
out). As usual a disclamer applies: These packages may fry your motherboard, 
melt your monitor, cause power outage at your home, and many other vicious 
things... Use them at your own risk.

Slaven

On July 20, 2003 12:25, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 01:14:40PM -0400, Nicolas Bouche wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > i am trying to install gsl-1.3 on linux (debian).
>
> Anything wrong with the packages I maintain?
>
> > No problem with configure, make and make check.
> >
> > However, make install fails with the error message
> >
> > Making install in sys
> > make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/gsl-1.3/sys'
> > make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/gsl-1.3/sys'
> > make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'.
> > /bin/sh ../mkinstalldirs /usr/local//include/gsl
> >  /star -m 644 gsl_sys.h /usr/local//include/gsl/gsl_sys.h
> > /bin/sh: /star: No such file or directory
> > make[2]: *** [install-pkgincludeHEADERS] Error 127
> > make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/gsl-1.3/sys'
> > make[1]: *** [install-am] Error 2
> > make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/gsl-1.3/sys'
> > make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
> >
> > any clues?
>
> No -- if you check the logs of the automated build daemons [1] used for the
> non-i386 systems, you see that gsl builds very cleanly cleanly on all
> Debian systems irrespective of the architecture. Note that those run the
> 'unstable' flavour of Debian, though.
>
> Dirk
>
>
> [1] http://buildd.debian.org/build.php?pkg=gsl