Re: Problems with gsl-0.6-0.i386.rpm

[Brian Gough <bjg at network-theory dot co dot uk>]

Found the problem -- the gsl.spec file was pointing to an old
directory for the libs and getting the wrong files.  I have uploaded
some new rpms to the sourceware ftp site.

I made the rpms on a debian system. Maybe that creates some shared
library issues. This was the 'Requires' line,

Requires: ld-linux.so.2 libc.so.6 libm.so.6 /bin/sh


Index: gsl.spec
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/gsl/gsl/gsl.spec,v
retrieving revision 1.4
diff -r1.4 gsl.spec
65c65
< /usr/lib/gsl
---
> /usr/lib


Dirk Eddelbuettel writes:
 > 
 >   Brian> Thanks for the bug report. Anyone on the list have any ideas?
 > 
 > I maintain the Debian packages, and it worked for me on Debian. You can
 > always look at Debian's .diff.gz in the source/ tree. The diff contains,
 > among other things, debian/rules, a 'meta-makefile'. While these might
 > contain a lot of calls to our build tools, it will _always_ contain what we
 > do for the 'configure; make; make install' cycle and might therefore be of
 > help.
 > 
 >   Toby>  If it's any use to anybody, I have converted the current (0.6)
 >   Toby> .deb's from debian woody to .rpm's (with alien), and put them at
 >   Toby> <URL:http://ket.ch.cam.ac.uk/people/tow/gsl/>.
 >   Toby> 
 >   Toby> They're probably not ideal, but they work fine for me.
 > 
 > Let me know if you run into trouble. I am not sure if I can help (.rpm not
 > spoken here), but I can at least run it by alien's author, another
 > Debianite. 
 > 
 > Dirk
 > 
 > -- 
 > According to the latest figures, 43% of all statistics are totally worthless.
 > 
 >