[Kst] Re: The crash when using a gsl-based fit plugin: possible solution

[Matthew Truch]

"Peter Kümmel" <syntheticpp at gmx.net> wrote:

>On 19.03.2011 13:13, Nicolas Brisset wrote:
>>>> It seems that making the gsl flags "-Wl,--no-as-needed -lgsl
>>> -lgslcblas -lm" and making sure they are at the end of the list
>should
>>> fix the issue.
>>>>
>>>> Peter, could you try to add that to cmake so that I can check
>>> whether it works? Having all fit plugins crash is really bad. We
>>> should try to fix it, especially if there is a known solution. I'm
>>> actually surprised that it does not crash on other Linux systems as
>>> this way of linking seems to be the default for gsl.
>>>
>>> As I understand it, gsl loads a blas lib at runtime. Have you
>>> installed one of them on your sytem?
>>
>> Yes, it is in fact part of the gsl package. It's just that somehow it
>is not correctly linked.
>>
>> nicolas at linux-cwbq:~>  rpm -ql gsl
>> /usr/bin/gsl-histogram
>> /usr/bin/gsl-randist
>> /usr/lib/libgsl.so.0
>> /usr/lib/libgsl.so.0.15.0
>> /usr/lib/libgslcblas.so.0
>> /usr/lib/libgslcblas.so.0.0.0
>>
>> Is it difficult to try the above mentioned switch? I guess changing
>the gsl flags when gsl is found should do the trick...
>
>It's not difficult to add such options but I don't think it will fix
>it, or have you tried?
>
>The bug report you mentioned is about build time because resolving all
>files was required by --as-needed.
>
>But you have a runtime error.
>
>Does 'ldd' list libgslcblas.so when you call it on a gsl plugin?
>
>
>Here on Ubuntu we link against cblas:
>-- Found Gsl:
>--      includes : /usr/include/gsl;/usr/include/gsl/..
>--      libraries:
>/usr/lib/libgsl.so;/usr/lib/libgslcblas.so;/usr/lib/libm.so
>
>Could you check the output of your cmake.
>
>Peter
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gsl provides its own cblas library, but it's separate because there are other implimentations which are compatible and are faster. Generally, if a non-gsl cblas library is found it should be prefered over the included one, something that the build system should attempt to figure out.
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Mathew Truch
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