[Bug-gsl] gsl installation error

[Cole Johnston]

Hi, I'm trying to install gsl and I keep running into the same problem.
I've tried a few "solutions" suggested to me, but none seem to work.

The whole error message I receive is:

sudo gem install gsl
Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
ERROR:  Error installing gsl:
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

        /usr/bin/ruby1.9.1 extconf.rb
checking gsl version... 1.15
checking gsl cflags... -I/usr/local/include
checking for main() in -lcblas... no
checking gsl libs... -L/usr/local/lib -lgsl -lgslcblas -lm
checking for round()... no
checking for rngextra/rngextra.h... no
checking for qrngextra/qrngextra.h... no
checking for ool/ool_version.h... no
checking for tensor/tensor.h... no
checking for jacobi.h... no
checking for gsl/gsl_cqp.h... no
checking for gsl/gsl_multimin_fsdf.h... no
checking for gsl_poly_solve_quartic() in -lgsl... no
checking for gsl_eigen_francis() in -lgsl... yes
checking for ndlinear/gsl_multifit_ndlinear.h... no
checking for alf/alf.h... no
checking rb-gsl version...1.14.7
checking ruby version... 1.9.3
checking for graph... no
NOTE: Gem.searcher is deprecated, use Specification. It will be removed on
or after 2011-11-01.
Gem.searcher called from extconf.rb:245.
NOTE: Gem::GemPathSearcher#initialize is deprecated with no replacement. It
will be removed on or after 2011-10-01.
Gem::GemPathSearcher#initialize called from
/usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems.rb:952.
NOTE: Gem::GemPathSearcher#find is deprecated with no replacement. It will
be removed on or after 2011-10-01.
Gem::GemPathSearcher#find called from extconf.rb:245.
checking for narray.h... yes
checking for tamu_anova/tamu_anova.h... no
checking for main() in -ltamuanova... no
creating Makefile

make
compiling ieee.c
compiling sf_trigonometric.c
sf_trigonometric.c: In function ‘rb_gsl_sf_complex_XXX_e’:
sf_trigonometric.c:66:7: warning: variable ‘status’ set but not used
[-Wunused-but-set-variable]
sf_trigonometric.c: In function ‘rb_gsl_sf_sin_err_e’:
sf_trigonometric.c:160:7: warning: variable ‘status’ set but not used
[-Wunused-but-set-variable]
sf_trigonometric.c: In function ‘rb_gsl_sf_cos_err_e’:
sf_trigonometric.c:172:7: warning: variable ‘status’ set but not used
[-Wunused-but-set-variable]
compiling multifit.c
multifit.c: In function ‘rb_gsl_multifit_fdfsolver_gradient’:
multifit.c:357:7: warning: variable ‘status’ set but not used
[-Wunused-but-set-variable]
multifit.c: In function ‘rb_gsl_multifit_fdfsolver_covar’:
multifit.c:374:7: warning: variable ‘status’ set but not used
[-Wunused-but-set-variable]
multifit.c: In function ‘rb_gsl_multifit_gradient’:
multifit.c:445:7: warning: variable ‘status’ set but not used
[-Wunused-but-set-variable]
multifit.c: In function ‘Gaussian_df’:
multifit.c:786:19: warning: variable ‘y’ set but not used
[-Wunused-but-set-variable]
multifit.c: In function ‘Gaussian_2peaks_df’:
multifit.c:857:19: warning: variable ‘y’ set but not used
[-Wunused-but-set-variable]
multifit.c: In function ‘Exponential_df’:
multifit.c:928:19: warning: variable ‘y’ set but not used
[-Wunused-but-set-variable]
multifit.c: In function ‘DblExponential_df’:
multifit.c:994:19: warning: variable ‘y’ set but not used
[-Wunused-but-set-variable]
multifit.c: In function ‘Lorentzian_df’:
multifit.c:1062:19: warning: variable ‘y’ set but not used
[-Wunused-but-set-variable]
multifit.c: In function ‘Sin_df’:
multifit.c:1127:19: warning: variable ‘y’ set but not used
[-Wunused-but-set-variable]
multifit.c: In function ‘Hill_df’:
multifit.c:1193:19: warning: variable ‘y’ set but not used
[-Wunused-but-set-variable]
multifit.c: In function ‘Sigmoid_df’:
multifit.c:1260:19: warning: variable ‘y’ set but not used
[-Wunused-but-set-variable]
multifit.c: In function ‘Power_df’:
multifit.c:1325:19: warning: variable ‘y’ set but not used
[-Wunused-but-set-variable]
multifit.c: In function ‘Lognormal_df’:
multifit.c:1390:19: warning: variable ‘y’ set but not used
[-Wunused-but-set-variable]
multifit.c: In function ‘Rayleigh_df’:
multifit.c:1452:19: warning: variable ‘y’ set but not used
[-Wunused-but-set-variable]
multifit.c: In function ‘rb_gsl_multifit_linear_residuals’:
multifit.c:1747:5: warning: ‘y’ may be used uninitialized in this function
[-Wuninitialized]
multifit.c:1748:5: warning: ‘c’ may be used uninitialized in this function
[-Wuninitialized]
multifit.c:1756:5: warning: ‘r’ may be used uninitialized in this function
[-Wuninitialized]
multifit.c: In function ‘rb_gsl_multifit_linear_est’:
multifit.c:1731:3: warning: ‘x’ may be used uninitialized in this function
[-Wuninitialized]
multifit.c:1732:3: warning: ‘c’ may be used uninitialized in this function
[-Wuninitialized]
compiling nmf.c
compiling multiroots.c
compiling siman.c
siman.c: In function ‘rb_gsl_siman_solver_solve’:
siman.c:572:38: warning: variable ‘ppp’ set but not used
[-Wunused-but-set-variable]
compiling sf_dawson.c
compiling interp.c
compiling ndlinear.c
compiling gsl.c
compiling rng.c
compiling histogram_find.c
compiling eigen.c
compiling sf_erfc.c
compiling sf_lambert.c
compiling sf_dilog.c
sf_dilog.c: In function ‘rb_gsl_sf_complex_dilog_e’:
sf_dilog.c:29:7: warning: variable ‘status’ set but not used
[-Wunused-but-set-variable]
compiling ntuple.c
compiling signal.c
signal.c: In function ‘rb_gsl_fft_conv_corr’:
signal.c:108:28: warning: variable ‘stride3’ set but not used
[-Wunused-but-set-variable]
compiling histogram.c
histogram.c: In function ‘rb_gsl_histogram_fit_exponential’:
histogram.c:1029:24: warning: variable ‘hh’ set but not used
[-Wunused-but-set-variable]
histogram.c: In function ‘rb_gsl_histogram_fit_power’:
histogram.c:1079:24: warning: variable ‘hh’ set but not used
[-Wunused-but-set-variable]
compiling sf_transport.c
compiling histogram3d_source.c
compiling randist.c
compiling sf.c
sf.c: In function ‘rb_gsl_sf_eval_double_m’:
sf.c:778:14: warning: variable ‘mode’ set but not used
[-Wunused-but-set-variable]
sf.c: In function ‘rb_gsl_sf_eval_double2_m’:
sf.c:862:14: warning: variable ‘mode’ set but not used
[-Wunused-but-set-variable]
sf.c: In function ‘rb_gsl_sf_eval_double3_m’:
sf.c:938:14: warning: variable ‘mode’ set but not used
[-Wunused-but-set-variable]
sf.c: In function ‘rb_gsl_sf_eval_double4_m’:
sf.c:1016:14: warning: variable ‘mode’ set but not used
[-Wunused-but-set-variable]
sf.c: In function ‘rb_gsl_sf_eval_e’:
sf.c:1089:7: warning: variable ‘status’ set but not used
[-Wunused-but-set-variable]
sf.c: In function ‘rb_gsl_sf_eval_e_int’:
sf.c:1100:7: warning: variable ‘status’ set but not used
[-Wunused-but-set-variable]
sf.c: In function ‘rb_gsl_sf_eval_e_uint’:
sf.c:1111:7: warning: variable ‘status’ set but not used
[-Wunused-but-set-variable]
sf.c: In function ‘rb_gsl_sf_eval_e_int_uint’:
sf.c:1122:7: warning: variable ‘status’ set but not used
[-Wunused-but-set-variable]
sf.c: In function ‘rb_gsl_sf_eval_e_double_uint’:
sf.c:1134:7: warning: variable ‘status’ set but not used
[-Wunused-but-set-variable]
sf.c: In function ‘rb_gsl_sf_eval_e_int_double’:
sf.c:1146:7: warning: variable ‘status’ set but not used
[-Wunused-but-set-variable]
sf.c: In function ‘rb_gsl_sf_eval_e_int_double2’:
sf.c:1159:7: warning: variable ‘status’ set but not used
[-Wunused-but-set-variable]
sf.c: In function ‘rb_gsl_sf_eval_e_int_int_double’:
sf.c:1173:7: warning: variable ‘status’ set but not used
[-Wunused-but-set-variable]
sf.c: In function ‘rb_gsl_sf_eval_e_double2’:
sf.c:1186:7: warning: variable ‘status’ set but not used
[-Wunused-but-set-variable]
sf.c: In function ‘rb_gsl_sf_eval_e_double3’:
sf.c:1199:7: warning: variable ‘status’ set but not used
[-Wunused-but-set-variable]
sf.c: In function ‘rb_gsl_sf_eval_e_m’:
sf.c:1213:7: warning: variable ‘status’ set but not used
[-Wunused-but-set-variable]
sf.c: In function ‘rb_gsl_sf_eval_e_double2_m’:
sf.c:1244:7: warning: variable ‘status’ set but not used
[-Wunused-but-set-variable]
sf.c: In function ‘rb_gsl_sf_eval_e_double3_m’:
sf.c:1274:7: warning: variable ‘status’ set but not used
[-Wunused-but-set-variable]
sf.c: In function ‘rb_gsl_sf_eval_e_double4_m’:
sf.c:1305:7: warning: variable ‘status’ set but not used
[-Wunused-but-set-variable]
compiling sf_bessel.c
sf_bessel.c: In function ‘rb_gsl_sf_bessel_xl_array’:
sf_bessel.c:291:16: warning: variable ‘status’ set but not used
[-Wunused-but-set-variable]
sf_bessel.c: In function ‘rb_gsl_sf_bessel_sequence_Jnu_e’:
sf_bessel.c:468:7: warning: variable ‘status’ set but not used
[-Wunused-but-set-variable]
compiling graph.c
graph.c:974:13: warning: ‘gsl_graph_set_command’ defined but not used
[-Wunused-function]
compiling sf_coupling.c
sf_coupling.c: In function ‘rb_gsl_sf_coupling_3j_e’:
sf_coupling.c:28:7: warning: variable ‘status’ set but not used
[-Wunused-but-set-variable]
sf_coupling.c: In function ‘rb_gsl_sf_coupling_6j_e’:
sf_coupling.c:53:7: warning: variable ‘status’ set but not used
[-Wunused-but-set-variable]
sf_coupling.c: In function ‘rb_gsl_sf_coupling_9j_e’:
sf_coupling.c:86:7: warning: variable ‘status’ set but not used
[-Wunused-but-set-variable]
compiling blas1.c
blas1.c: In function ‘rb_gsl_blas_ddot’:
blas1.c:119:7: warning: variable ‘status’ set but not used
[-Wunused-but-set-variable]
blas1.c: In function ‘rb_gsl_blas_zdotu’:
blas1.c:129:7: warning: variable ‘status’ set but not used
[-Wunused-but-set-variable]
blas1.c: In function ‘rb_gsl_blas_zdotc’:
blas1.c:140:7: warning: variable ‘status’ set but not used
[-Wunused-but-set-variable]
compiling array.c
array.c: In function ‘cvector_set_from_narray’:
array.c:260:7: warning: variable ‘size’ set but not used
[-Wunused-but-set-variable]
compiling sum.c
compiling cheb.c
compiling bundle.c
compiling combination.c
compiling dirac.c
dirac.c: In function ‘rb_dirac_commute’:
dirac.c:36:18: warning: variable ‘z2’ set but not used
[-Wunused-but-set-variable]
dirac.c:36:15: warning: variable ‘z’ set but not used
[-Wunused-but-set-variable]
dirac.c: In function ‘rb_dirac_anticommute’:
dirac.c:57:18: warning: variable ‘z2’ set but not used
[-Wunused-but-set-variable]
dirac.c:57:15: warning: variable ‘z’ set but not used
[-Wunused-but-set-variable]
compiling sf_fermi_dirac.c
compiling histogram_oper.c
compiling sf_elementary.c
sf_elementary.c: In function ‘rb_gsl_sf_multiply_e’:
sf_elementary.c:19:7: warning: variable ‘status’ set but not used
[-Wunused-but-set-variable]
sf_elementary.c: In function ‘rb_gsl_sf_multiply_err_e’:
sf_elementary.c:31:7: warning: variable ‘status’ set but not used
[-Wunused-but-set-variable]
compiling fresnel.c
compiling fit.c
compiling histogram3d.c
compiling math.c
compiling vector_complex.c
vector_complex.c:1989:12: error: conflicting types for
‘gsl_vector_complex_equal’
/usr/local/include/gsl/gsl_vector_complex_double.h:167:5: note: previous
declaration of ‘gsl_vector_complex_equal’ was here
make: *** [vector_complex.o] Error 1


Gem files will remain installed in /var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/gsl-1.14.7 for
inspection.
Results logged to /var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/gsl-1.14.7/ext/gem_make.out



cheers,
Cole