[Gretl-devel] Problems building and installing on Fedora 8

[Allin Cottrell]

On Sat, 3 May 2008, Max Pyziur wrote:

> I have an Fedora Core 2 machine which I use as a home server. 
> Your latest rpm build of gretl does install on that machine. 
> However, I still can't build it on that machine.
> 
> I have installed gretl-1.7.4-1gtk2.i586.rpm on my Core 2 using 
> the --nodeps flag. As yet, I haven't tried using it, other than 
> bringing up the initial interface.
> 
> I have tried setting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH variable both on the 
> FC2 as well as the FC8 machine in the hopes of getting gretl to 
> build. No luck.

I'll go back to your previous message...

"I get the following two sets of errors:
1) checking for LAPACK... no 
*** Could not run LAPACK test program, checking why... 
*** The test program failed to compile or link. See config.log for the 
*** exact error that occured. This may mean LAPACK was incorrectly installed 
*** or that you have moved LAPACK since it was installed."

Well, like it says, take a look at config.log.  Lapack 3.1.1 is 
installed, according to rpm -qa, but maybe libblas is missing, or 
maybe none of libf2c/libg2c/libgfortran can be found? liblapack is 
not usable without libblas, and the lapack+blas combination in 
turn is useless without a basic fortran library.  On recent Fedora 
I'd expect that to be libgfortran.so; on older systems it was 
libg2c.so, and on even older systems, libf2c.so.

"2) The rpmbuild fails with the following:
mkdir .libs
gcc -o .libs/gretlcli gretlcli.o complete.o  
../lib/.libs/libgretl-1.0.so 
-ldl -L/usr/local/lib -lz -lxml2 -lglib-2.0 -lgmp -lfftw3 -lm 
-lreadline -ltermcap
../lib/.libs/libgretl-1.0.so: undefined reference to `dtrcon_'"

That's just the same error: dtrcon_ is defined by liblapack.

On my system:

waverley:~$ /bin/ls -1 /usr/lib/liblapack*
/usr/lib/liblapack.so
/usr/lib/liblapack.so.3
/usr/lib/liblapack.so.3.1
/usr/lib/liblapack.so.3.1.1
waverley:~$ /bin/ls -1 /usr/lib/libblas*
/usr/lib/libblas.so
/usr/lib/libblas.so.3
/usr/lib/libblas.so.3.1
/usr/lib/libblas.so.3.1.1
waverley:~$ locate libgfortran.so
/opt/gcc4/lib/libgfortran.so
/opt/gcc4/lib/libgfortran.so.3
/opt/gcc4/lib/libgfortran.so.3.0.0

Allin Cottrell