gsl

[Suvayu Ali]

On Sunday 18 July 2010 09:48 AM, Patrick Dupre wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Jul 2010, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>
>> On 07/18/2010 09:44 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote:
>>> On Sun, 18 Jul 2010, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 07/18/2010 08:23 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote:
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>> I am looking for the gsl sources. There are not in gsl neither in
>>>>> gsl-devel.
>>>>> Is the only option to install gsl-1.14.tar.gz ?
>>>>
>>>> yumdownloader --source gsl
>>>>
>>> Thank of course, but it does not install the source like I
>>> would have expected, cf like gsl-devel should do it ! or another
>>> package.
>>>
>>
>> You misunderstand how it works. gst-devel does not contain source
>> files. -devel files only include the development files necessary to
>> build against it. Not the full source. The srpms contain the full
>> source along with the spec file used to produce gst and gst-devel.
>>
> Humm, but I still cannot find the source file for gsl_matrix_alloc !
> or grep gsl_matrix_set_zero !
>
> Where are they, because there are bit in the tgz file.
> I am missing something.
>

What Rahul mentioned before downloads the source rpm. You have to 
install it after you have downloaded the rpm. You can install it like 
this, (as a regular user)

$ rpm -ivh /path/to/gsl.src.rpm

Then you will find the entire source tree tarball in your home in a 
directory tree like this,

$HOME/rpmbuild/
|-- BUILD
|-- BUILDROOT
|-- RPMS
|-- SOURCES   # <-- source tarball is here
|-- SPECS     # <-- rpm .spec file is here
`-- SRPMS

Hope this helps

> Regards.
>

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Suvayu

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