Re: build package

[George N. White III]

On Tue, 2 Jun 2020 at 07:36, Patrick Dupre <pdupre(a)gmx.com&gt; wrote:

>  Hello,
>
>  I am rebuilding the perl packages that I need.
>  perl-Math-GSL-0.40.tar.gz
>
>
>  rpmbuild -bb perl-Math-GSL.spec
>
>  gives an error:
>  Checking for GSL using gsl-config
>  Found GSL 2.6 (via gsl-config) installed in /usr
>  Checking if gcc supports "-Wall"...yes
>  Checking if gcc supports "-Wno-sometimes-uninitialized"...yes
>  Checking if gcc supports "-Wno-unused-function"...yes
>  Checking if gcc supports "-Wno-unused-value"...yes
>  Checking if gcc supports "-Wno-unused-function"...yes
>  Checking if gcc supports "-Wno-unused-variable"...yes
>  Checking if gcc supports "-Wno-gnu"...yes
>  Checking if gcc supports "-g"...yes
>  unsupported version: 2.6 at Build.PL line 77.
>  error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.I4k1Cb (%build)
>  
https://github.com/leto/math--gsl/issues/176 is a request for
GSL 2.6 support from last month.



>  Checking on the Build.PL file;
>  it seems to be due to
>
>  my $ver2func = Ver2Func->new( $gsl_conf->{gsl_version} );
>
>
>  The same version of perl-Math-GSL compiled fine with fc30.
>  (same version of cpanspec)
>  Now the gsl version is 2.6 (2.4 before)
>
>  Do I need to recompile gsl ?
>  
Until upstream finishes making the necessary changes you are stuck using an
old gsl.
You might consider helping (testing, documenting) with the changes.  I use
Fedora
precisely so I can discover and work on issues like this for the software I
use.

-- 
George N. White III