[R] Compiling R in Caldera Linux

[Luke Tierney]

Peter Dalgaard BSA wrote:
> Chris Roed <croed at mb.sympatico.ca> writes:
> 
> > I am new to Linux and its ways, and so I am having a bit of trouble compiling R.
> > The system I am using is Caldera Open Linux 2.4.  I have egcs and g77 version
> > 2.91.66 installed and they seem to work fine.  When I try to run the 
> > configure script for R, it quits at the test of g77 with an error "Can't find
> > -lg2c". 
> >  Does this error mean I am missing a library, and if so, which one?
> 
> Yes, libg2c... As far as I remember (it's been a while since we had
> reports on Caldera) the wisest thing to do is probably to install f2c
> and reconfigure using --with-f2c. 
> 
> I'm pretty sure that the root of the problem is that Caldera simply
> forgot to package that library with the g77 compiler. If you really
> want it, it might be best simply to recompile the compiler (which
> isn't all that hard, but not completely trivial either).
> 
> There's a remote chance that it might work to copy libf2c.a to
> libg2c.a in whatever corresponds to RedHats
> /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/egcs-2.91.66/ directory.
> 

I believe they forgot the g2c library with 2.3 and fairly quickly
posted an rpm that fixed that on their web site--you might check
there.

luke


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