[Help-gsl] Installing GSL on AIX 5.3

[stuart Lynn]

Hi everyone

I am having trouble installing GSL 1.9 on an AIX 5.3 system. I
originally had the bug talked about in the INSTALL file

 fp-aix.c: In function `gsl_ieee_set_mode':
 fp-aix.c:30: error: `fprnd_t' undeclared (first use in this function)

so I copied /usr/include/float.h in to ieee-utils/aix_float.h  and
stripped out anything not between #ifdef _ALL_SOURCE and its #endif. I
included  aix_float.h in fp-aix.c as so

#ifdef _ALL_SOURCE

#include "fp-aix.c"

#ifndef _H_LIMITS
#include <sys/limits.h>
#endif

#define DINFINITY _DBLINF

        extern  unsigned   int SINFINITY;
        extern  unsigned   int _DBLINF[2];
        extern  unsigned   int SQNAN;
        extern  unsigned   int DQNAN[2];
        extern  unsigned   int SSNAN;
        extern  unsigned   int DSNAN[2];
...

The make routine happily compiled everything then but then dies on
linking with :

make[2]: Entering directory `/home/sl/gsl-1.9/siman'
/bin/sh ../libtool --tag=CC --mode=link gcc  -g -O2   -o siman_tsp
siman_tsp.o libgslsiman.la ../rng/libgslrng.la
../ieee-utils/libgslieeeutils.la ../err/libgslerr.la
../sys/libgslsys.la ../utils/libutils.la -lm
gcc -g -O2 -o siman_tsp siman_tsp.o  ./.libs/libgslsiman.a
../rng/.libs/libgslrng.a ../ieee-utils/.libs/libgslieeeutils.a
../err/.libs/libgslerr.a ../sys/.libs/libgslsys.a
../utils/.libs/libutils.a -lm
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .gsl_ieee_set_mode
ld: 0711-345 Use the -bloadmap or -bnoquiet option to obtain more information.
collect2: ld returned 8 exit status


I really have no idea what to try now and would be really grateful of
any suggestions as to how to fix this.

cheers

stuart