Re: [Help-gsl] A question about GSL library

[John Lamb]

Victoria Landsman wrote:
> Dear GSL-help list, 
> our System Admin has installed the GSL library on Sun Solaris machine in the library /usr/local/lib 
> but I cannot see the files with .so extension there. For example, 
> $cd /usr/local/lib 
> $ls libgsl.* 
>
> gives me 
> libgsl.a and libgsl.la . 
>
> May it be that we missed smth in the installation? 
> Much thanks for your help, 

I guess it's been compiled with --disable-static for some reason. Maybe 
the solaris box doesn't have the tools for building shared objects.

Everything should still work as normal. You'll just end up with slightly 
bigger executables.


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JDL