[Rd] problem with location of libraries 64-bit (opensuse)

[Detlef Steuer]

Short answer: No!

I`ll just change/improve the procedure R is built.
Download R-patched tomorrow and some internals a "ordinary" user won`t notice will be changed. 

Detlef

On Thu, 5 May 2011 17:09:30 -0700
"M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb at borasky-research.net> wrote:

>  I've got an openSUSE 11.4 machine using R-patched - do I need to
> change anything?
> 
> On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 12:55 PM, Detlef Steuer
> <detlef.steuer at hsu-hamburg.de> wrote:
> > Simon,
> >
> > thank you very much for the detailed answer.
> >
> >> This shows that rpy2 doesn't setup up the environment correctly (see the R script for the necessary settings). libR* are NOT supposed to the in /usr/lib64 - it is a bad hack and very dangerous (programs may pick the incorrect R libraries). Given that the setup is already messed up it's hard to tell what causes the gfortran problem.
> >
> >
> > Ok, this mess up is easily identified. In my spec file I link
> > $libdir/R/lib/libRblas.so to $libdir/libRblas.so and the same for libR
> > and liblapack. Hmm. It works that way for ages, I can`t even vaguely
> > remember when and why I introduced that.
> > Now I`ve build  R-patched with these links removed.
> > At least "here it works". May be that cures rpy2, too.
> >
> > Thx again
> > Detlef
> >
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