preparing a new release

Brian Gough bjg@network-theory.co.uk
Wed Aug 31 10:53:00 GMT 2005


Aaron Schweiger writes:
 > make[2]: Entering directory `/c/tmp/gsl-1.6.91/histogram'
 > /bin/sh: ./test.exe: Permission denied
 > FAIL: test.exe
 > 
 > Re-running make check allowed me to complete the sequence without incident.
 > This looks like a problem with MSYS - but I wanted to report it here in case
 > others run into it.

Strange that re-running the tests works -- if the file permissions are
wrong I wouldn't expect them to change.

 > On a side note, I am curious why we don't include a single "gsl.h"
 > that includes all the gsl headers - with the expection of gsl_cblas.h
 > (because it's exceptionally large)?  Most modern computers can handle 
 > the large
 > number of files in a trivial amount of time?

Some of us don't have modern computers :-(
Also it just seems better style (to me) to keep things modular.

-- 
Brian Gough



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