Hello, While its configuring, I get the following. Notice the "failed" at ".. /usr/bin/nm -B output... failed"
.... checking for unistd.h... yes checking dlfcn.h usability... yes checking dlfcn.h presence... yes checking for dlfcn.h... yes checking the maximum length of command line arguments... 8192 ->checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm -B output from xlc object... failed checking for objdir... .libs checking for ar... ar checking for ranlib... ranlib checking for strip... strip checking for xlc option to produce PIC... .. .. The message above appears when I execute one of the following. % CC="xlc" CFLAGS="-q64" ./configure or % CC="xlc_r" CFLAGS="-q64" ./configure or % CFLAGS="-q64" ./configure When I compile I get the following error bash-2.05a$ make make all-recursive Making all in gsl rm -f gsl*.h HEADERLIST="../gsl*.h ../*/gsl*.h"; for h in $HEADERLIST; do BASENAME=`basename $h`; test -r $BASENAME || ln -s $h $BASENAME; done Target "all" is up to date. Making all in utils /bin/sh ../libtool --tag=CC --mode=compile xlc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -q64 -c -o placeholder.lo placeholder.c mkdir .libs xlc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -q64 -c placeholder.c -DPIC -o .libs/placeholder.o /bin/sh ../libtool --tag=CC --mode=link xlc -q64 -o libutils.la placeholder.lo -lm ar cru .libs/libutils.a .libs/placeholder.o ar: 0707-126 .libs/placeholder.o is not valid with the current object file mode. Use the -X option to specify the desired object mode. make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 1. Stop. make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 1. Stop. make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 2. Stop. Thanks alot for your responds. Quoting Brian Gough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Nassim Jibai wrote: > > How can I configure the gsl library to compile as a 64-bit library? > > > > I tried the following and everytime I execute the make command it > crashes. > > What is the error? > > -- > Brian Gough > (GSL Maintainer) > > Network Theory Ltd, > Publishing the GSL Manual - http://www.network-theory.co.uk/gsl/manual/ > > -- Nassim Jibai System Administrator American University of Beirut Center for Advanced Mathematical Science room 424 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +961 1 350000 x 4397 +961 1 374374 _______________________________________________ Help-gsl mailing list Help-gsl@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gsl