make check: compile failure

make check: compile failure

[Hans Ekkehard Plesser]

Hi! 

I just downloaded (via CVS) the GSL and compiled it fine (gcc 2.95.3, SuSE 
Linux 7.2).
On running make check, many tests passed fine (producing ca 600kB 
log-output), before I got the error message appended below.
Two more little things: 1. when clicking on the  
"sources.redhat.com:/pub/gsl/" on "sources.redhat.com/gsl", one is asked for 
a password.  This link seems no longer open to the public.
2. The README points to alpha.gnu.org/gnu, but there I found only very old 
versions (<= 0.5). 

Best regards,
Hans 


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Making check in interpolation
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/admin/gsl/interpolation'
make  test
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/admin/gsl/interpolation'
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I..    -g -O2 -c test.c
/bin/sh ../libtool --mode=link gcc  -g -O2  -o test  test.o 
libgslinterpolation.la ../linalg/libgsllinalg.la ../blas/libgslblas.la 
../vector/libgslvector.la ../block/libgslblock.la ../sys/libgslsys.la 
../err/libgslerr.la ../test/libgsltest.la ../utils/libutils.la -lm
gcc -g -O2 -o test test.o .libs/libgslinterpolation.al -lm 
../linalg/.libs/libgsllinalg.al -lm ../blas/.libs/libgslblas.al -lm 
../vector/.libs/libgslvector.al -lm ../block/.libs/libgslblock.al -lm 
../sys/.libs/libgslsys.al -lm ../err/.libs/libgslerr.al -lm 
../test/.libs/libgsltest.al -lm ../utils/.libs/libutils.al -lm -lm
.libs/libgslinterpolation.al(akima.lo): In function `akima_eval_deriv':
/home/admin/gsl/interpolation/akima.c:244: undefined reference to 
`DISCARD_POINTER'
.libs/libgslinterpolation.al(akima.lo): In function `akima_eval_deriv2':
/home/admin/gsl/interpolation/akima.c:280: undefined reference to 
`DISCARD_POINTER'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [test] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/admin/gsl/interpolation'
make[1]: *** [check-am] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/admin/gsl/interpolation'
make: *** [check-recursive] Error 1 

Re: make check: compile failure

[Brian Gough]

Hans Ekkehard Plesser writes:
 > I just downloaded (via CVS) the GSL and compiled it fine (gcc 2.95.3, SuSE 
 > Linux 7.2).
 > On running make check, many tests passed fine (producing ca 600kB 
 > log-output), before I got the error message appended below.

Thanks for the bug report.  I've fixed the acconfig.h file and the
macro DISCARD_POINTER should now be correctly defined if you do 
cvs update and make.

 > Two more little things: 1. when clicking on the  
 > "sources.redhat.com:/pub/gsl/" on "sources.redhat.com/gsl", one is asked for > a password.  This link seems no longer open to the public.

Right.. the site has probably reached its maximum connections.  When
logging in by command-line ftp there is a message about this, but
browsers usually don't show the message.  I think I will change the
webpage to point to the mirror ftp site list as it is happening more
frequently as the site gets busier.

 > 2. The README points to alpha.gnu.org/gnu, but there I found only very old 
 > versions (<= 0.5). 

I'll clean up the README file.

regards
Brian Gough