Re: [Help-gsl] Request function for library version string

[Dave Allured - NOAA Affiliate]

Peter,

Okay, now I get it.  Thanks all for contributing to my C education.

--Dave

On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 5:16 PM, Peter Johansson <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Dave,
>
> On 07/31/2013 08:34 AM, Dave Allured - NOAA Affiliate wrote:
>>
>> Jerome and Patrick,
>>
>> Thank you.  I am not much of a C programmer, but my understanding is
>> that using gsl_version from gsl/gsl_version.h would result in the
>> version string associated with gsl/gsl_version.h at compile time.
>
> This is inaccurate. The variable 'gsl_version' is implemented in file
> 'version.c' and the value is decided when you compile 'version.c' and the
> rest of the code within gsl to create libgsl.so.
>
> HTH,
> Peter