[R] Installing packages

[Noel Yvonnick]

Hello,

I have upgraded from Mandrake Linux 8.0 to Mandrake 8.1 and try to reinstall 
my favourite R... Everything is OK for the base software but I have trouble 
to get some packages installed.

Specifically, for some packages, a "collect2" binary seems to be necessary 
during the compilation/linking process of the library, and LD complains about 
not finding it :

Installing source package `waveslim' ...
 libs
g77   -fPIC  -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mcpu=pentiumpro -march=i586 
-ffast-math -fno-fast-math -c bell-p-w.f -o bell-p-w.o
gcc -I/usr/lib/R/include  -I/usr/local/include -mieee-fp -D__NO_MATH_INLINES  
-fPIC  -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mcpu=pentiumpro -march=i586 
-ffast-math -fno-fast-math -c dwt.c -o dwt.o
gcc -I/usr/lib/R/include  -I/usr/local/include -mieee-fp -D__NO_MATH_INLINES  
-fPIC  -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mcpu=pentiumpro -march=i586 
-ffast-math -fno-fast-math -c hosking.c -o hosking.o
gcc -shared  -o waveslim.so bell-p-w.o dwt.o hosking.o  -L/usr/local/lib 
-lg2c -lm -L/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-mandrake-linux/2.96 
-L/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-mandrake-linux/2.96/../../../../i586-mandrake-linux/lib 
-L/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-mandrake-linux/2.96/../../.. -lm
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lg2c
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [waveslim.so] Erreur 1
ERROR: compilation failed for package `waveslim'

It seems to be looking for it in usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-mandrake-linux/2.96 
when it is actually in usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-mandrake-linux-gnu/2.96 on my 
system. I tried to set conveniently the LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable, or to 
create a symbolic link "usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-mandrake-linux/2.96" to 
usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-mandrake-linux-gnu/2.96 but nothing worked.

Note that I have both gcc-2.96 and gcc-3.0 installed, but I don't know if it 
is part of the problem.

I am no Linux guru and wonder whether some good soul would have a hint...

Thank you very much in advance,

Yvonnick Noel, PhD.
U. of Lille 3
Dpt. of Psychology
FRANCE
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