Thanks! The GSL code should really be an example for BinDeps.
For the record, these two lines install GSL from source:
```Julia
# build from source
provides(Sources, URI("http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gsl/gsl-1.16.tar.gz";), libgsl)
provides(BuildProcess, Autotools(libtarget = "libgsl.la"), libgsl)
```
-erik
On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 9:15 AM, Milan Bouchet-Valat <[email protected]> wrote:
> Le lundi 28 mars 2016 à 08:41 -0400, Erik Schnetter a écrit :
>> The HDF5 package does not know how to install HDF5 on Linux; it
>> requires HDF5 to be installed on the system. (This is different e.g.
>> on Darwin, where it can install its own HDF5 library.) The solution is
>> to update the HDF5 package to use BinDeps to install HDF5 from source.
>>
>> Installing HDF5 is just the usual "configure --prefix=somewhere; make;
>> make install", so that should be straightforward. Unfortunately I'm
>> not too familiar with BinDeps, and the documentation doesn't have an
>> example for installing a package from a tarball. I'd be happy to
>> create a PR if someone points me to an example, maybe in another
>> package.
> Building from source is good for a cluster when you don't have root
> access. However, for many Linux users a package provider will be even
> better (and it's easier to set up with BinDeps).
>
> The BinDeps documentation is a bit hard to read, but it mentions the
> Cairo.jl example, which is reasonably complete:
> https://github.com/JuliaLang/Cairo.jl/blob/master/deps/build.jl
>
> A simpler example is GSL.jl:
> https://github.com/jiahao/GSL.jl/blob/master/deps/build.jl
>
>
> Regards
>
>> -erik
>>
>> On Sun, Mar 27, 2016 at 10:42 PM, jda <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> > I am getting this error:
>> >
>> > LoadError: None of the selected providers can install dependency
>> > libhdf5.
>> >
>> > on a linux cluster node. Can anyone suggest a fix?
>>
>>
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