Re: [Help-gsl] Linking problems with gsl

[Patrick Alken]

> OK.  To be honest I'm not too sure about how these aspects of UNIX work.
>  Would this mean that only I can use the shared library, and that I can
> only access it from within the bash shell?  Are there any more general
> means for telling the system, "Look in /usr/local/lib as well as /usr/lib"?
>

Put /usr/local/lib in /etc/ld.so.conf and run "ldconfig". Then type
"ldconfig -v | grep gsl" and make sure its got an entry for libgsl -
if it does, gcc ... -lgsl -lgslcblas should work fine from any shell.