Re: [Help-gsl] Request function for library version string

[Peter Johansson]

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