Installing gsl octave-forge pkg on opensuse 12.2

[Philippe Baril Lecavalier]

Hello,

I am trying to install the gsl package from octave-forge, and I'm
encountering some difficulties.

Platform: openSUSE 12.2 x86_64
octave: 3.6.2 (package from openSUSE)

gsl and gsl-devel packages are installed on this system.

I get the following:

octave:1> pkg install -forge -noauto gsl
warning: load_path:
/home/pbl/octave/gsl-1.0.8/x86_64-suse-linux-gnu-api-v48+: No such file
or directory
/home/pbl/octave/gsl-1.0.8/x86_64-suse-linux-gnu-api-v48+/coupling_3j.oct:
failed to load: /usr/lib64/libgsl.so.0: undefined symbol: cblas_dasum
error: called from `gen_doc_cache>create_cache' in file
/usr/share/octave/3.6.2/m/help/gen_doc_cache.m near line 94, column 17
error: called from:
error:   /usr/share/octave/3.6.2/m/pkg/pkg.m at line 869, column 5
error:   /usr/share/octave/3.6.2/m/pkg/pkg.m at line 383, column 9


It might explain why there is no octave-forge-gsl package in the
openSUSE repository. Still, is there a reasonable workaround to this?
Does the package work on other distributions?

I am able to install other packages using "pkg install" in octave, such
as control and optim. It did not work before installing hdf5-devel and
hdf5-devel-static (as told by another post).

Thank you.


Philippe Baril Lecavalier