libraries; Fortran / -lf2c / Slackware woes
Martin Maechler
Martin Maechler <maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch>
Wed, 20 May 1998 10:08:28 +0200
Jim,
you should ask questions like these on R-devel.
There are more proficient Linux gurus on there than me [that's why I CC:].
>>>>> "Jim" == Jim Lindsey <jlindsey@luc.ac.be> writes:
Jim> Martin, Here is an additional problem with my libraries: the
Jim> Kalman filtering, written in Fortran, uses complex arithmetic.
Jim> On my Red Hat 5, the f2c library is included by the -lf2c in the
Jim> Makefile.
makes sense.
Jim> However, my son has just installed a new version of
Jim> Slackware and we can find no way to convince gcc to include the
All I ever hear about Slackware is that you should not use it anymore...
[I used to have a 0.99x version of Linux.. and *did* have Slackware then..]
Jim> f2c library. (With the previous version of Slackware that he had,
Jim> it could be tricked by placing -L/usr/lib right before -lf2c,
Jim> something I never understood.)
-L/usr/lib says to that -lf2c should also search for libf2c.a or .so
in /usr/lib.
However that is standard (in Linux), so I don't understand either.
The above problem sounds like your installation is broken to some extent...
Jim> Of course, R crashes when we run my
Jim> programs because it does not find the complex functions.
Jim> I remember that there was some discussion of such problems on the
Jim> list quite a while ago. Is any solution in sight?
The new 0.62 branch of R *REQUIRES* either a fortran compiler or f2c.
So, your problems might have resolved by then.
However, given what you tell above, I assume that your Slackware-Linux
system has some misconfigurations that should be resolved anyway...
Martin
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