Re: Library problems on Mac

[Andrea Riciputi <ariciputi@pito.com>]

On Wednesday, October 23, 2002, at 11:30 PM, Rodney Sparapani wrote:

> Mark:
>
> I think you can fix this by configure --disable-shared
>
> Rodney
>
>> Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 12:13:49 -0500
>> Subject: Library problems on Mac
>> From: Mark Brady <brady038@umn.edu>
>> To: <gsl-discuss@sources.redhat.com>
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>> Hi,
>>
>> I recently installed GSL on my OSX Mac.  The make seemed to run without
>> error.  According to your documentation, at least 2 libraries are to be
>> created: libgsl.a and libgslcblas.a.  However, libgsl.a is not 
>> created.  A
>> libgslcblas.la file is created but cc does not seem to recognize it 
>> as a
>> linkable library.
>>
>> What's wrong?
>>
>> -Mark Brady

I highly recommend to use Fink in order to install GSL (and a lot of 
other Open Source software) on MacOS X. It takes care automatically of 
building shared libraries and it makes your life a lot easier managing, 
installing and updating a tons of software.

For more information look at:

<http://fink.sourceforge.net/>

Cheers,
Andrea.

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Andrea Riciputi        <mailto:andrea.riciputi@libero.it>

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