address@hidden: Re: pspp 0.7.5 can't find the GSL 1.14 lib]

[John Darrington]

I think this user's experience demonstrates why I'm not a big fan
of pkg-config.  On one hand, it means that pkg-config takes over the
responsibility of determining which version of and in what location the
library exists.  But on the other hand, if the .pc file itself is in a
non-standard place (as was the case for this user) then pkg-config will
erroneously report that the library isn't installed.

I suggest that in instances where pkg-config fails to detect a library, we
fall back on the traditional autoconf AC_SEARCH_LIBS method.

J'

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Subject: Re: pspp 0.7.5 can't find the GSL 1.14 lib
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To: John Darrington <address@hidden>
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thank you! it works!!

On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 4:22 PM, John Darrington <
address@hidden> wrote:

> You probably need to set your PKG_CONFIG_PATH variable to include
> /home/test/local/pkgconfig
> or to wherever the gsl.pc file got installed.
>
> J'
>
> On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 11:44:18AM +0800, ?????? wrote:
>     hi, all
>          I have a problem to install pspp 0.7.5 in my debian OS. here are
> what i
>     did:
>     1) download the latest version of gsl on ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gsl/,
> should
>     be 1.14
>     2) run configure with --prefix=/home/test/local ( i'm using the account
>     "test", and i don't have root permission)
>     3) make & make install gsl, it doesn't show any warnings or errors,
> seems
>     work
>     4) download the pspp 0.7.5 on http://benpfaff.org/~blp/pspp-master/,
>     http://benpfaff.org/~blp/pspp-master/latest-src.tar.gz
>     5) unzip the pspp 0.7.5
>     6) run configure with
>     ./configure LDFLAGS='-L/home/test/local/lib -Wl,-rpath
>     -Wl,/home/test/local/lib' CPPFLAGS='-I/home/test/local/include'
>     --without-libplot --without-gui --without-cairo
> --prefix=/home/test/local
>     7) then showing errors
>     --------------------------------
>     configure: error: The following required prerequisites are not
> installed.
>     You must install them before PSPP can be built:
>             gsl 2.0 version 1.12 or later
>     --------------------------------
>     seems that the pspp can't find the gsl lib 1.14?
>     but it works if i complie for pspp 0.6.2, with same
>     LDFLAGS='-L/home/test/local/lib -Wl,-rpath -Wl,/home/test/local/lib'
>     CPPFLAGS='-I/home/test/local/include'
>
>     i don't know what's wrong with pspp 0.7.5.
>
>     any helps are appreciated. thanks
>
>     best regards,
>     laoxie
>
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