py27-gsl @0.9.5_1: distutils.errors.DistutilsExecError: min gsl version (1, 9) required

[glen@…]

OSX 10.11.2, Macbook pro (early 2015).

Logfile attached.

[glen@…]

Logfile (from clean build)

[glen@…]

Excuse me, this is a Mac Pro (mid-213), not a Macbook Pro.

[mf2k (Frank Schima)]

Please do not Cc nomaintainer@… because it is not a valid email address.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Has duplicate #50024 (it's older, but doesn't have a log file).

[jjstickel (Jonathan Stickel)]

The part of the other ticket not captured here: "An update to py-gsl is available (from 0.9.5 to 2.1.1). I tried incrementing the version number in the py-gsl port, but that resulted in different build errors."

[petrrr]

Cc Me!

[dbevans (David B. Evans)]

Version 0.9.5 is 5 years old so it's not too surprising that it doesn't build with gsl 2.1.

However, as mentioned in the previous comment if one tries to build the latest 2.1.1 version is also fails with errors like

In file included from swig_src/callback_wrap.c:3624:
Include/pygsl/pygsl_features.h:68:2: error: "Should be version 1."
#error "Should be version 1."

and

swig_src/callback_wrap.c:14061:86: error: too many arguments to function call, expected 2, have 8
  result = gsl_multifit_linear_svd((gsl_matrix const *)arg1,(gsl_vector const *)arg2,arg3,arg4,arg5,arg6,arg7,arg8);
           ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~                                                  ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

This makes it pretty clear that even this latest version doesn't support gsl version 2 (which has a number of API changes).

Need to work with the upstream developer to add this support or obsolete the port.

[jjstickel (Jonathan Stickel)]

pygsl has released version 2.2.0. The attached Portfile patch implements this version. I tested with python-2.7. Upstream README indicates that 3.4 should work, and 3.5 is being tested, but I have not tested those versions myself.

[jjstickel (Jonathan Stickel)]

I replaced the patch to include python 3.4 and 3.5 (in addition to 2.7). I have now tested with python 2.7 and 3.5. All looks good. Please commit.

[petrrr]

Committed in r152239.

[petrrr]

Thanks for your contribution. Would you be interested in maintaining the port?

[jjstickel (Jonathan Stickel)]

Replying to petr@…:

Thanks for your contribution. Would you be interested in maintaining the port?

Sure, OK. But add openmaintainer also. Thanks.

[petrrr]

Here you go: r152240.