[forwarded message from Anders H. Abrahamsen]

[Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian dot org>]

  "Brian" == Brian Gough <bjg@network-theory.co.uk> writes:
  Brian>  Any ideas?  

  Anders> I have tried both gcc 2.96 and gcc 3.1-0.10. For three days ago I
  Anders> ran Rehat 7.1, now I've just upgraded to 7.2.
[...]
  Anders> Anders H A writes: > When I run the tests (make check), it locks up
  Anders> after this test: > > ..  > PASS: gsl_sf_ellint_E_e(M_PI/3.0, 0.01,
  Anders> mode, &r)m > > (All tests before PASSes.)  >

You can assess success (or lack thereof) on various platform and compilers at
Debian's "Build Daemon Success/Failure" database. Goto

       http://buildd.debian.org/build.php?arch=&pkg=gsl

to pull the logs for the gsl package. As the package build process calls
'make check', these logs are fairly long and detailed.

Among the platforms that compiled gsl-1.0 successfully (i.e. i386, ia64 [aka
"itanium"], alpha, arm, mips, mipsel, sparc), the ia64 port uses a gcc 2.96:

edd@caballero:~$ gcc -v
Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/ia64-linux/2.96/specs
gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Debian GNU/Linux IA64 experimental)

edd@caballero:~$ uname -a
Linux caballero 2.4.9-itanium-smp #1 SMP Wed Nov 21 13:44:54 MST 2001 ia64 unknown

Now, as everybody knows, what Red Hat calls "gcc 2.96" is probably not what
the rest of the world calls "gcc 2.96" so you might want to check for an
upgraded gcc toolchain there.

I can't think of a platform (other than hppa) that enforces
gcc-3.0. Unfortunately, hppa currently has toolchain issues so there is no
attempt beyond the failure of 0.9.4 back in October. I do have other packages
with issues on that platform.

Hope this helps, 

Dirk  (Debian maintainer for GSL)

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