[Octopus-devel] bug or what?

[Xavier Andrade]

Hi Florian,

It is strange, my version of gsl (Debian Sid) defines it (and defines an
alias for AM_PATH_GSL). From what I can see in the configure, the builbots
have gsl in a non-standard location, so perhaps the autoreconf part is
not getting the same gsl installation.

I don't like the idea of including gsl, but I like Miguel's idea of
including just the macro.

Cheers,

Xavier

On Thu, 22 Nov 2007, Florian Lorenzen wrote:

> At Thu, 22 Nov 2007 11:00:41 +0100 (CET),
> Xavier Andrade wrote:
>>
>> Actually we require gsl 1.9, but as in this version there is also the
>> AX_PATH_GSL macro, we can change it.
> I'm sorry, I cannot find the AX_PATH_GSL macro in the gsl.m4 file of GSL-1.9. Of course,
> I can update the GSL to 1.10 on the BuildBots but than we should also depend on 1.10.
>
> Actually, what do you think about simply including the library in external_libs? It is
> GPL and via the vendor branch technique, it's not much work for us. We could set in
> the configure.ac that we take the shipped version if no user specified on could be found.
> Other codes, EXCITING or PWSCF, even include BLAS, LAPACK, and FFTW in their distribution, as
> fallback if the user does not specify something different.
>
> Regards,
>
> Florian
>