[Rd] problem building R packages on RHEL 4 Linux with Intel compilers

[Simon Urbanek]

On May 29, 2008, at 5:01 PM, Mark Kimpel wrote:

> I am installing within my home folder, see the ./configure options.  
> I've never had a permission problem before and, like I said, if I  
> don't put all the Intel-specific flags in the ./configure,  
> everything works fine.
>

This has nothing to do with the executable bit and/or permissions -  
this is about the compiler rejecting your flags. Have a look in  
config.log that's where you'll find out what the compiler didn't like  
(and the error clearly tells you that ;)).

Cheers,
Simon


> On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 4:41 PM, Esmail Bonakdarian <esmail.js at gmail.com 
> >
> wrote:
>
>> Mark Kimpel wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> checking for gcc... gcc
>>> checking for C compiler default output file name...
>>> configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
>>> See `config.log' for more details.
>>>
>>
>> Are you running this as root? Or do you have the right
>> privileges for the install?
>>
>> The "cannot create executables" looks like a permission problem
>>
>> Esmail
>>
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