Build of rb-gsl failed

[harry.park@…]

rb-gsl failed to build for me when installing from mac ports. 10.6 Snow Leopard MBP Ruby: ruby 1.8.7 (2009-06-12 patchlevel 174) [i686-darwin10]

#: sudo port install rb-gsl
--->  Computing dependencies for rb-gsl
--->  Building rb-gsl
Error: Target org.macports.build returned: shell command " cd "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_ruby_rb-gsl/work/rb-gsl-1.10.3" && /opt/local/bin/ruby -rvendor-specific setup.rb setup " returned error 1
Command output: ---> lib
---> lib/gsl
<--- lib/gsl
---> lib/ool
<--- lib/ool
<--- lib
---> ext
make
/usr/bin/gcc-4.2 -I. -I. -I/opt/local/lib/ruby/1.8/i686-darwin10 -I/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_ruby_rb-gsl/work/rb-gsl-1.10.3/ext -DHAVE_ROUND -I/opt/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/i686-darwin10 -I/opt/local/include -D_XOPEN_SOURCE -D_DARWIN_C_SOURCE  -I/opt/local/include -fno-common  -Wall -I../include -I/opt/local/include -arch x86_64 -c const.c
const.c: In function 'rb_gsl_const_cgs':
const.c:602: error: 'GSL_CONST_CGSM_GAUSS' undeclared (first use in this function)
const.c:602: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
const.c:602: error: for each function it appears in.)
make: *** [const.o] Error 1
setup.rb:655:in `command': system("make") failed (RuntimeError)
	from setup.rb:664:in `make'
	from setup.rb:1258:in `setup_dir_ext'
	from setup.rb:1532:in `__send__'
	from setup.rb:1532:in `traverse'
	from setup.rb:1549:in `dive_into'
	from setup.rb:1530:in `traverse'
	from setup.rb:1524:in `exec_task_traverse'
	from setup.rb:1519:in `each'
	from setup.rb:1519:in `exec_task_traverse'
	from setup.rb:1246:in `exec_setup'
	from setup.rb:996:in `exec_setup'
	from setup.rb:826:in `__send__'
	from setup.rb:826:in `invoke'
	from setup.rb:773:in `invoke'
	from setup.rb:1578

Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.

[peter@…]

same problem. snow leopard 10.6.2, macbook core 2 duo, ruby 1.8.7 (2009-06-12 patchlevel 174) [i686-darwin10]

/usr/bin/gcc-4.2 -I. -I. -I/opt/local/lib/ruby/1.8/i686-darwin10 -I/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_ruby_rb-gsl/work/rb-gsl-1.10.3/ext -DHAVE_ROUND -I/opt/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/i686-darwin10 -I/opt/local/include -D_XOPEN_SOURCE -D_DARWIN_C_SOURCE  -I/opt/local/include -fno-common  -Wall -I../include -I/opt/local/include -arch x86_64 -c const.c
const.c: In function 'rb_gsl_const_cgs':
const.c:602: error: 'GSL_CONST_CGSM_GAUSS' undeclared (first use in this function)
const.c:602: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
const.c:602: error: for each function it appears in.)
make: *** [const.o] Error 1
setup.rb:655:in `command': system("make") failed (RuntimeError)
        from setup.rb:664:in `make'
        from setup.rb:1258:in `setup_dir_ext'
        from setup.rb:1532:in `__send__'
        from setup.rb:1532:in `traverse'
        from setup.rb:1549:in `dive_into'
        from setup.rb:1530:in `traverse'
        from setup.rb:1524:in `exec_task_traverse'
        from setup.rb:1519:in `each'
        from setup.rb:1519:in `exec_task_traverse'
        from setup.rb:1246:in `exec_setup'
        from setup.rb:996:in `exec_setup'
        from setup.rb:826:in `__send__'
        from setup.rb:826:in `invoke'
        from setup.rb:773:in `invoke'
        from setup.rb:1578

Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.

Looks like a problem with the libgsl library because reports like this (​http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=549435):

"In upstream libgsl, version 1.13, the GSL_CONST_CGSM_GAUSS symbol was removed. The attached patch fixes the problem. The correct solution is to remove the reference to the symbol entirely, as upstream says the value of the constant wasn't reliable."

[peter@…]

Cc Me!

[peter@…]

The SVN version of rb-gsl compiles fine, suggest using that until a new tag is released: svn checkout ​svn://rubyforge.org/var/svn/rb-gsl

[peter@…]

Cc Me!

[nchaimov@…]

Cc Me!

[simon@…]

Cc Me!

[burkestar@…]

rb-gsl Macport is still broken on Snow Leopard. As a workaround, follow Rok Sribar's installation steps (posted Mar 15, 2008) - notably steps 4 and 5.

​http://rubyforge.org/forum/forum.php?thread_id=19389&forum_id=1225

Step 4) Download rb-gsl from: ​http://rb-gsl.rubyforge.org/ and copy rb-gsl-x.xx.x folder to: /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/

Step 5) Install rb-gsl by following instructions at ​http://rb-gsl.rubyforge.org/ or # % cd /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rb-gsl-1.10.3/ # % ruby setup.rb config # % ruby setup.rb setup # % sudo ruby setup.rb install # Password:

-- DONE --

[jmr@…]

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