configure fails to find plsexit

[Dan Suson]

I am trying to build gdl -0.9.2 on a 64-bit system:

Linux Dans-PC 2.6.37.6 #3 SMP Sat Apr 9 22:49:32 CDT 2011 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770 CPU @ 3.40GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

I have downloaded both plplot-5.9.9-8.1.2.x86_64 and plplot-devel-5.9.9-8.1.2.x86_64 as pre-built binaries. The libraries are installed in /usr/lib64. nm -D libplplotcxxd.so yields

root@Dans-PC:/usr/lib64# nm -D libplplotcxxd.so |grep plsexit
                 U plsexit

while nm -D libplplotd.so yields

root@Dans-PC:/usr/lib64# nm -D libplplotd.so |grep plsexit
0000000000026c20 T plsexit

so the function is present. I'm running configure with the command

./configure -prefix=/usr/local -libdir=/usr/local/lib64 -with-plplot=/usr/lib64

and getting the following message

checking for omp.h… yes

OpenMP enabled (omp.h file was found).
Try -with-openmp=no if your compiler does not support it (e.g. GCC < 4.2)

checking for gsl_ran_binomial_knuth in -lgsl… yes
checking for cblas_drot in -lgslcblas… yes
checking for plsexit in -lplplotcxxd… no

Error! plplot library is required but was not found
       Use -with-plplot=DIR to specify the plplot directory tree

       (suitable Debian/Ubuntu packages: libplplot-dev, plplot9-driver-xwin)

Why is configure not finding plsexit and how can I fix this?

[Sylwester Arabas]

Hi,

Please try using CMake instead of configure which will soon be deprecated for GDL.
Instead of "./configure" you just type "cmake ."

HTH,
Sylwester