GNU Scientific Library - News
posted by bjg, Wed 09 Sep 2009 03:40:05 PM UTC - 0 replies
Version 1.13 of the GNU Scientific Library (GSL) is now available. GSL provides a large collection of routines for numerical computing in C.
This is a maintenance release, which fixes reported bugs and upgrades the build system to the latest ...
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posted by bjg, Fri 20 Feb 2009 11:58:35 AM UTC - 0 replies
I will be at the FSF Libre Planet free software conference at Harvard Science Center on 21-22 March. John Eaton (GNU Octave) will also be there. -- Brian Gough
posted by bjg, Thu 12 Feb 2009 12:24:51 PM UTC - 0 replies
A new print edition of the GNU Scientific Library Reference Manual is now available (ISBN 0954612078). It is published under the GNU Free Documentation License and covers version 1.12 of the library. The money raised from sales of the manual helps support the development of GSL. [Book details here]
posted by bjg, Mon 09 Feb 2009 05:57:54 PM UTC - 0 replies
Many distributions are starting to link every application with the GNU Linker's --as-needed flag, to avoid loading libraries that are specified on the command-line but not actually used.
While this is a good thing, it caused a problem for ...
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posted by bjg, Tue 16 Dec 2008 10:12:55 AM UTC - 0 replies
Version 1.12 of the GNU Scientific Library (GSL) is now available. GSL provides a large collection of routines for numerical computing in C.
This is a maintenance release, which fixes reported bugs and upgrades the build system to the latest libtool, autoconf and automake. The full NEWS file entry is appended below.
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posted by bjg, Tue 09 Dec 2008 11:10:11 PM UTC - 0 replies
There is a test release for gsl-1.12 at
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/gsl/gsl-1.11.90.tar.gz
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/gsl/gsl-1.11.90.tar.gz.sig
Please try it out and report any problems to the bug-gsl AT gnu.org mailing list. Thanks. I've ...
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posted by bjg, Thu 13 Nov 2008 11:23:13 AM UTC - 0 replies
The license of the GNU Scientific Library Reference manual has been updated to version 1.3 of the GNU FDL.
posted by bjg, Sun 26 Oct 2008 08:52:22 PM UTC - 2 replies
If you are working on changes to a project using Git, such as GSL, it can be useful to make your repository public rather than sending patches.
The usual way to export a git branch involves running git-daemon, webdav or having git installed on ...
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posted by bjg, Thu 04 Sep 2008 01:15:09 PM UTC - 0 replies
Release 1.12 of the GNU Scientific Library is planned in the next 1-2 months. The goal is to fix the outstanding bugs in the tracker and to do testing with the latest release of GCC.
This is particularly needed for programs compiled with -std=c99 as the header files have been extended to (hopefully) be compatible with both c89 and c99 with respect to the changes in the inline keyword.

