Hi, Seems like you don't have make installed in your system. Just refer to your system's package manager and find which package provides GNU make
On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 1:07 AM, syed raza <engrshahidr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thank you so much dear Marco for your detail email reply. > i have tried what you advised me as > > $ cd /home/marco > $ mkdir -p var/build > $ cd var/build > $ tar --extract --gzip --verbose --file=/home/marco/gsl-1.9.tar.gz > $ cd gsl-1.9 > > $ ./configure --disable-static --enable-shared > > up to this point it works error free all the tar(command) and configure > done successfully > > > but when i try the command > > $ make > > it tells me > > cant found make command . > > in the gsl-1.9 directory i have the the makefile . > > please let me know what could be the problem . > > i am using Mandriva spring 2009. > > Regards > > Shahid > > > > On 10/2/09, Marco Maggi <marco.maggi-i...@poste.it> wrote: >> >> "syed raza" wrote: >> > I want to compile a program of simple Matrix using gcc and >> > GSL. >> >> Ciao, in what follows I assume you are a beginner with >> GNU+Linux platforms, so bear with it if I write stuff you >> already know. There are a lot of things to say and it is >> difficult to have this exchange through email; anyway, let's >> give it a try. >> >> If you do a Google search for "how to compile and install >> a program under linux", you will find a number of tutorials >> about how to compile and install programs; I suggest that >> you read some of them. >> >> Now for the specific task of compiling and installing the >> GSL: first, you should unpack the archive "gsl-1.9.tar.gz" >> in a temporary directory. >> >> On my system, my user name is "marco", so my home >> directory pathname is "/home/marco"; in everything below I >> use this pathname, you should use your own home directory >> pathname. When I build a GSL package I do it in the >> temporary directory "/home/marco/var/build". It goes like >> this, assuming that "gsl-1.9.tar.gz" is a file under >> "/home/marco": >> >> $ cd /home/marco >> $ mkdir -p var/build >> $ cd var/build >> $ tar --extract --gzip --verbose --file=/home/marco/gsl-1.9.tar.gz >> $ cd gsl-1.9 >> $ ./configure --disable-static --enable-shared >> $ make >> >> if everything works the GSL is configured and built by the >> last two commands; we can verify that the building worked by >> running the tests: >> >> $ make check >> >> you should see a lot of compiler invocations and messages >> like: >> >> ============= >> 1 test passed >> ============= >> >> meaning that a test program was run and successfully >> executed. Running the tests may take some minute. >> >> Now we have to install the GSL; we configured it with the >> default setting for the destination directory, so it will be >> installed under the "/usr/local" directory hierarchy. >> >> First, you have to make sure that "/usr/local" is in a >> hard disk partition mounted with writable access >> permissions. For example, on my system running the >> following command: >> >> $ mount | grep /usr/local >> >> prints: >> >> /dev/sda11 on /usr/local type ext3 (rw,nodev,errors=remount-ro) >> >> the first "rw" in the parentheses shows that "/usr/local" is >> writable. There is too much to be told about how your >> system may be configured; so, let's assume that your >> "/usr/local" is writable, and come back to it only if the >> installation fails. >> >> To install GSL you need to acquire root permissions, this >> means use the "su" program or "sudo" program. "sudo" needs >> to be configured, while "su" should work for you; let's use >> "su". If you do a Google search on "how to use su on linux" >> you should find some tutorials on it. >> >> Basically to install GSL you should do: >> >> $ su >> $ make install >> $ /sbin/ldconfig >> $ exit >> >> the "su" program asks you to type in the "root" password; do >> it and "su" will run a shell under "root" privileges; run >> "make install" and "ldconfig" and finally type "exit" to >> exit the privileged shell. >> >> The location of "ldconfig" may vary on your Linux system, >> I do not know where Mandriva places it; it may be in one of >> the following locations: >> >> /sbin/ldconfig >> /usr/sbin/ldconfig >> >> or some other place. Find it and run it with "root" >> privileges. >> >> Now, on to compiling a program linked to the GSL library. >> The source file of your program is called "matrixExp.c", >> fine; first put it under a temporary directory: >> >> $ cd <where the file is> >> $ mkdir /home/marco/var/tmp >> $ mv matrixExp.c /home/marco/var/tmp >> $ cd /home/marco/var/tmp >> >> Your program looks fine to me, meaning that I successfully >> compiled and run it on my system with the commands below. >> When linking to the GSL library, you have to tell the >> compiler how to use it; the GSL package installs a script >> "gsl-config" which we can use to acquire the informations we >> need. You can try to run this: >> >> $ gsl-config --cflags --libs >> >> on my system it prints: >> >> -I/usr/local/include >> -L/usr/local/lib -lgsl -lgslcblas -lm >> >> these are all options to be put on the command line of GCC; >> so let's try: >> >> $ gcc -I/usr/local/include -L/usr/local/lib -lgsl -lgslcblas -lm -o >> matrixExp matrixExp.c >> >> it should compile the program and create an executable named >> "matrixExp"; equivalently, using the features of the shell >> you are running you could do: >> >> $ gcc $(gsl-config --cflags --libs) -o matrixExp matrixExp.c >> >> To run the program: >> >> $ ./matrixExp >> >> which prints: >> >> differences = 0 (should be zero) >> >> I hope all of this helps you; to have further help, you >> can reply to me by private email. >> -- >> Marco Maggi >> > _______________________________________________ > Help-gsl mailing list > Help-gsl@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gsl > -- HZ _______________________________________________ Help-gsl mailing list Help-gsl@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gsl
