Re: GSL onto postgresql server 9.2

Thanks a lot.

I have compiled gsl with prefix=/usr and this is quite acceptable for us.

On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 2:30 PM, Albe Laurenz <laurenz(dot)albe(at)wien(dot)gv(dot)at>wrote:

> Yuriy Rusinov wrote:
> > I have to put some C-language functions onto postgresql server 9.2.
> These functions are used GSL
> > software library http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/. In Makefile for
> these functions I wrote LD_FLAGS =
> > ... -lgsl, On some source-based Linux distributions such as gentoo linux
> these functions successfully
> > installed onto server, but on rpm-based distributions such as fedora and
> others does not. gsl library
> > has to be compiled from sources, because some specific distributions
> does not have this one and rpm-
> > installation of this library does not allowed. Error message is "error
> <mylibrary>.so cannot load
> > libgsl.so.0 no such file" despite of gsl library was installed onto
> /usr/local, library files are
> > installed into /usr/local/lib. Where is the problem in postgresql or
> distribution ?
>
> Read "man ld", the description of "search paths to locate
> required shared libraries".
>
> /usr/local/lib is not automatically searched.
> I would either install the library in /usr/lib,
> link the shared object with -Wl,-rpath,/usr/local/lib
> or put /usr/local/lib into /etc/ld.so.conf and run
> ldconfig.
>
> Yours,
> Laurenz Albe
>

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Best regards,
Sincerely yours,
Yuriy Rusinov.