[PPL-devel] install bug

[Mark Poolman]

Greets,

  I'm having problems installing ppl 0.5 on a redhat 9 system. The
configure script fails to detect the gmp library:

./configure
.
.
.
  
checking for the GMP library... no
configure: error: Cannot find GMP version 4.1.2 or higher.
GMP is the GNU Multi-Precision library:
see http://www.swox.com/gmp/ for more information.
Do not forget to enable the C++ interface: add --enable-cxx
to the configuration options.

However, gmp  definitely is installed, and rebuilding a fresh version
doesn't help:
$rpm -qil gmp
Name        : gmp                          Relocations: (not
relocateable)
Version     : 4.1.2                             Vendor: (none)
Release     : 6.1                           Build Date: Mon 30 Jun 2003
14:04:48 BST
Install Date: Mon 30 Jun 2003 14:05:22 BST      Build Host: nanook
Group       : System Environment/Libraries   Source RPM:
gmp-4.1.2-6.1.src.rpm
Size        : 289551                           License: LGPL
Signature   : (none)
URL         : http://www.swox.com/gmp/
Summary     : A GNU arbitrary precision library.
Description :
The gmp package contains GNU MP, a library for arbitrary precision
arithmetic which operates on signed integers, rational numbers and
floating point numbers. GNU MP is designed for speed, for both small
and very large operands. GNU MP is fast because it uses fullwords as
the basic arithmetic type, it uses fast algorithms, it carefully
optimizes assembly code for many CPUs' most common inner loops, and
generally emphasizes speed over simplicity/elegance in its
operations.
/usr/lib/libgmp.so.3
/usr/lib/libgmp.so.3.3.2
/usr/lib/libmp.so.3
/usr/lib/libmp.so.3.1.6
/usr/share/doc/gmp-4.1.2
/usr/share/doc/gmp-4.1.2/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/gmp-4.1.2/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/gmp-4.1.2/README


The bizarre thing about this is that the .so vewrsion numbers do not
correspond to the rpm version numbers, and I guess that this may be the
cause of the problem and is more to do with gmp rather than  ppl, but
any advice offered will be gratefully recieved.

TIA,

Mark




-- 
Dr. Mark Poolman
Post Doctoral Researcher
Metabolic Control Analysis Group
School of Biology and Molecular Science
Oxford Brookes University