test release

[Rodney Sparapani]

> 
> I have been working on a new release,
> 
>   http://www.network-theory.co.uk/gsl/gsl-1.3.20030730.tar.gz
> 
> However, this is not an actual release candidate, since there is one
> known outstanding issue that I have to deal with, but it is very
> close.
> 
> The issue is a problem with the recent releases of autoconf producing
> configure scripts which do not work on bash-2.01 (which is still quite
> widely installed I think).
> 
> I could make a release with a patched version of autoconf, but I feel
> that the right thing to do is to wait for a new stable release of
> autoconf (I don't know when that will be though).  If that looks like
> it is going to take a long time maybe gsl-1.4 will just have to be
> released anyway without working on old versions of bash.
> 
> I'm making the tar file available so that it can be tested on non-GNU
> platforms (see [1] for details of non-GNU platform support). If it
> doesn't work, this is your chance to send a patch.  I have tested it
> on GNU/Linux with various versions of gcc.
> 

Brian:

I had no problems with configure/make/make check on Solaris 8.  I'm
going to also give it a try on OS X
-- 
Rodney Sparapani              Medical College of Wisconsin
Sr. Biostatistician           Patient Care & Outcomes Research
rsparapa@mcw.edu              http://www.mcw.edu/pcor
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