Perl Math::GSL, GSL & BLAS in openSUSE

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#1

Hi,

I am having considerable trouble in getting Perl’s Math::GSL installed on openSUSE 11.0. I am working on AMD Turion 64 X2, 2Gb RAM and perl 5.10.0. First I had trouble with older versions of GSL. Now, after getting that compiled from source it seems that Math::GSL does not like the way the BLAS library available from the SUSE repositories was compiled. Has anyone had problems with this?

Thanks,

#2

I have no direct answer to your question, but I am interested when you get one :wink: I need it for something too.
Octave is using BLAS, so it must be supported somehow. I need it as part of it++, will soon look into that.

#3

Yes, Octave uses BLAS without problems. However, it is Math::GSL which cries about BLAS. I am not entirely sure about the solution. I will have to try to compile BLAS from source anyway but I wanted to ask if someone in this forum had experience with the problem.

#4

Hi
The problem is the gsl version. For some strange reason 11 ships with
1.9 using cpan installing Math::GSL::Vector::Test it identified wanting
gsl 1.11. So if you download 10.3 versions of gsl and gsl-devel from;
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Application:/Geo:/QT4/openSUSE_10.3/

Then you can remove the old (newer??) versions of gsl and install the
1.11 versions;


sudo zypper rm gsl gsl-devel

cd to your download location;


sudo rpm -Uhv gsl-1.11*
sudo rpm -Uhv gsl-devel-1.11*

Then use cpan to install.

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#5

Yes, to upgrade to GSL 1.11 was the solution.
Thanks