Peter, Okay, now I get it. Thanks all for contributing to my C education.
--Dave On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 5:16 PM, Peter Johansson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Dave, > > On 07/31/2013 08:34 AM, Dave Allured - NOAA Affiliate wrote: >> >> Jerome and Patrick, >> >> Thank you. I am not much of a C programmer, but my understanding is >> that using gsl_version from gsl/gsl_version.h would result in the >> version string associated with gsl/gsl_version.h at compile time. > > This is inaccurate. The variable 'gsl_version' is implemented in file > 'version.c' and the value is decided when you compile 'version.c' and the > rest of the code within gsl to create libgsl.so. > > HTH, > Peter
