[R] unsuccesfully making libRmath.a

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Ramon Diaz-Uriarte wrote:

> Dear All,
> 
> I am having problems making and using the standalone library, after succesfully
> installing R from the tar.gz file (I am using Linux, with R-patched, but I have
> similar problems with R-devel).   
> 
> First, when I do: 
> root at ligarto:/usr/lib/R-patched/src/nmath/standalone > make
> ....
> ar: mlutils.o: No such file or directory 
> make[1]: *** [libRmath.a] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/lib/R-patched/src/nmath/standalone' make: ***
> [archive] Error 2 
> 
> 
> I tried directly giving the names of the object files to ar, and it seems to
> work... but not really:
> 
> > gcc -I/usr/lib/R-patched/src/include-L/usr/lib/R-patched/src/nmath/standalone  test.c -lRmath 
> 
> /tmp/ccJAm46E.o: In function `main': 
> /tmp/ccJAm46E.o(.text+0x22): undefined reference to `qnorm5'
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status                           
> 
> 
> What am I doing wrong?

Well, it's hard to know what you are doing!  Try unpacking the tar again,
configuring, cd src/nmath/standalone and running make.  That is, not
making R first.  If that does not work, please send me a complete
transcript.

(Despite that advice, this has always worked for me on both Solaris and
Linux, but there seem to have been problems on older makes.)

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