error: GSL CBLAS library not found
 

I tried to compile one software. After I typed "./configure", there is an error:

error: GSL CBLAS library not found

I installed GSL 1.9 library --- When I was installing, it was like this:

make install
Making install in gsl
make[1]: Entering directory `myDir/gsl-1.9/gsl'
make[2]: Entering directory `myDir/gsl-1.9/gsl'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'.
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am'.
make[2]: Leaving directory `myDir/gsl-1.9/gsl'
make[1]: Leaving directory `myDir/gsl-1.9/gsl'
Making install in utils
make[1]: Entering directory `myDir/gsl-1.9/utils'
make[2]: Entering directory `myDir/gsl-1.9/utils'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'.
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am'.
make[2]: Leaving directory `myDir/gsl-1.9/utils'
make[1]: Leaving directory `myDir/gsl-1.9/utils'
Making install in sys
make[1]: Entering directory `myDir/gsl-1.9/sys'
make[2]: Entering directory `myDir/gsl-1.9/sys'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'.
test -z "/usr/local/include/gsl" || mkdir -p -- "/usr/local/include/gsl"
mkdir: cannot create directory `/usr/local/include/gsl': Permission denied
make[2]: *** [install-pkgincludeHEADERS] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `myDir/gsl-1.9/sys'
make[1]: *** [install-am] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `myDir/gsl-1.9/sys'
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1


I guess that I did not install GSL library correctly, so I got error message such as "GSL CBLAS library not found"?

the Linux environment I am using is CentOS 5.4 in a vmware virtual machine. I have a virtual machine on the network running CentOS 5.4 with the GNOME desktop. I use NoMachine's NX client to connect to the VM from my Windows XP workstation.

Thanks.
Tony

You need to run make install with sudo -- i.e. do You don't have permissions to write to the /usr directory.

Actually, CentOS does not (like Ubuntu) use sudo by default. Tony, you need to switch to the root user by typing then issue make install.

Is there no binary package for your distribution? I have debian, and I just looked in synaptic and see that I have gsl installed (I'm not even sure why, guess it was a dependency of something I installed)

Actually, there is. You can install it by switching to the root user and isuing

Oops -- didn't notice that you were on CentOS. But as I said, the primary reason is that you don't have permissions to install there. But as tiemen3r said -- unless you are trying to build and install a development version, you should just install the package via your package management tool.