[R] g2c library

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

On Sat, 16 Dec 2000, Jonathan Myles wrote:

> Working on a Red Hat (not Mandrake) Linux
> and trying to load my library I get 
> 
> (sorry, can't copy it all, working remotely)
> 
> gcc -shared -o .....
> 
> /user/bin/ld: cannot find -lg2c
> 
> Does anyone know what the g2c library iss, and if I can download and
> compile it for Red Hat
> 
> (I definitely didn't mean to type f2c
>  in the above)

It should be part of the egcs-g77 rpm: it is the modified libf2c used by
g77.  We've seen this missing on Caldera systems, but not RedHat ones.
It lives in the gcc-lib dir, e.g. (RH6.2)

blackcap% ls /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/egcs-2.91.66
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/egcs-2.91.66:
SYSCALLS.c.X  collect2*     crtend.o      libg2c.a      libstdc++.a@
cc1*          cpp*          crtendS.o     libgcc.a      libstdc++.so@
cc1obj*       crtbegin.o    f771*         libgcc.map    specs 

blackcap% rpm -qf /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/egcs-2.91.66/libg2c.a 
egcs-g77-1.1.2-30

You do have egcs-g77 installed?  (Might have a different name on 7.0.)

What version of R, BTW?  Prior to 1.2.0 I believe you needed egcs-g77
installed to build a package with C code, as $(FLIBS) was invoked,
but this should not be the case with 1.2.0 (once RPMs are available).

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