Missing Headers - octave-forge vs. octave-2.1.72

[John W. Eaton]

On 16-Nov-2005, Joe Koski wrote:

| After installing octave-2.1.72, I started with a new copy of
| octave-forge-2005.06.13, and did a ./configure and make in a new terminal
| window (no old environment variables hanging around). During the make
| process, I got errors of the form
| 
| coupling_3j.cc:20:24: gsl/gsl_sf.h: No such file or directory
| coupling_3j.cc:21:31: gsl/gsl_sf_result.h: No such file or directory
| coupling_3j.cc:22:27: gsl/gsl_errno.h: No such file or directory
| 
| Which wreaks havoc, causing errors for almost every line of coupling_3j.cc.
| 
| Later, I see again
| 
| gsl_sf.cc:22:24: gsl/gsl_sf.h: No such file or directory
| gsl_sf.cc:23:31: gsl/gsl_sf_result.h: No such file or directory
| gsl_sf.cc:24:27: gsl/gsl_errno.h: No such file or directory
| 
| and errors for just about every line of gsl_sf.cc as well.
| 
| The resulting build installs and works (mostly for my stuff), but where are
| the missing header files supposed to be located? I don't remember these
| problems while building octave-2.1.69 and 2.1.71, but maybe I wasn't paying
| enough attention.
| 
| Any ideas?

Do you have the GNU Scientific Library (GSL) installed?

jwe



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