Re: Linking Praat against the native GSL library

[Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@laboissiere.net>]

Just a complement on this issue: I installed an older version of GSL 
(1.8, available in Debian etch) and I could confirm the bug that you 
reported:

    $ ./test
    -nan

Rafael

* Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@laboissiere.net> [2013-04-12 23:32]:

> * Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@laboissiere.net> [2013-04-12 05:46]:
> > I will have a look at the specific GSL problem you mentioned.
>
> This is what I obtain with the current version (1.15+dfsg.2-2) of the 
> Debian libgsl0 package:
>
>    $ cat test.c
>    #include <gsl/gsl_cdf.h>
>    #include <stdio.h>
>
>    main ()
>    {
>        printf ("%f\n", gsl_cdf_fdist_Qinv (0.01, 1, 10000));
>    }
>    $ gcc -o test test.c -lgslcblas -lgsl
>    $ ./test
>    6.637430
>
> It seems that the problem you are fixing in Praat is actually a 
> non-bug in this version of GSL.
>
> Did you spot other wrong results with GSL?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Rafael