Re: naming scheme for the GSL package

[Mike Miller]

On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 11:57:38 -0800, Avinoam wrote:
> Running on Windows:
> 
> >> pkg install gsl-2.0.0.tar.gz
> warning: octave_config_info is obsolete and will be removed from a future
> version of O
> ctave, please use __have_feature__ or __octave_config_info__ instead.
> warning: called from
>     octave_config_info at line 43 column 5
> configure: error: gslcblas library not found
> checking for mkoctfile... D:/Octave/Octave-4.2.0/bin/mkoctfile-4.2.0.exe
> checking for octave... D:/Octave/Octave-4.2.0/bin/octave-4.2.0.exe
> checking for Octave's canonical_host_type... i686-w64-mingw32
> checking for gcc... gcc
> checking whether the C compiler works... yes
> checking for C compiler default output file name... a.exe
> checking for suffix of executables... .exe
> checking whether we are cross compiling... no
> checking for suffix of object files... o
> checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
> checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
> checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
> checking for cos in -lm... yes
> checking for cblas_dgemm in -lgslcblas... no
> 
> error: called from
>     install at line 200 column 5
>     pkg at line 394 column 9
> pkg: error running the configure script for gsl.

That's pretty much expected, unless you downloaded or compiled libgsl
for Windows yourself. If you're interested in this package you should
first work on getting libgsl working, either using mxe-octave or
downloading gsl and building it with mingw.

-- 
mike