[R-SIG-Mac] R cannot find gsl

[Simon Urbanek]

Ken,

you may want to ask the package maintainer about that sort of  
questions. AFAICS the package works only if GNU Sci Lib is installed  
as a system library. The configure in the gsl package is just a fake,  
really, because it tests LIBS but doesn't modify Makevars  
accordingly, so it's useless (it tests the wrong thing with the wrong  
compiler). You can as well remove it and edit Makevars to match your  
configuration (you may have to add PKG_CPPFLAGS as well).

Cheers,
Simon


On Jun 7, 2007, at 9:07 AM, KK wrote:

> Hi all.
>
> I'm trying to install the gsl package and the following (which I'll  
> paste
> below) is returned saying that the GNU Scientific Library cannot be  
> found. I
> installed the GNU Scientific Library using Fink, and as far as I  
> can tell it
> was installed correctly.
>
> WARNING: ignoring environment value of R_HOME
> * Installing *source* package 'gsl' ...
> checking for gcc... gcc
> checking for C compiler default output... a.out
> checking whether the C compiler works... yes
> checking whether we are cross compiling... no
> checking for suffix of executables...
> 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 ANSI C... none needed
> checking for gsl_sf_airy_Ai_e in -lgsl... no
> configure: error: Cannot find Gnu Scientific Library.
> ERROR: configuration failed for package 'gsl'
> ** Removing
> '/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.5/Resources/library/gsl'
>
> Any thoughts on getting R to find the GNU Scientific Library would  
> be very
> appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Ken
>
>
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