[R] re: problem installing library sm

[Roger Peng]

It seems you don't have the readline-devel package installed.  I think you
need this to compile R packages.  However, I don't see why only the 'sm'
package would fail....

-roger
_______________________________
UCLA Department of Statistics
rpeng at stat.ucla.edu
http://www.stat.ucla.edu/~rpeng

On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, rohan sadler wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> I am having trouble installing the sm package, and only the sm package. 
> My box is RedHat 7.3 on a PIV. Readline 4.3-3 is installed (suited for 
> RH 8, but same error under readline 4.2 for RH 7.3), but it seems to be 
> looking for the readline library in the wrong directory. Will installing 
> readline 4.1 do the trick? What else could be done?
> 
> 
> Rohan Sadler
> 
> [root at rsadler R]# R CMD INSTALL sm_2.0-6.tar.gz
> WARNING: ignoring environment value of R_HOME
> * Installing *source* package 'sm' ...
> ** libs
> g77 -mieee-fp  -fPIC  -O2 -m486 -fno-strength-reduce -g -c routines.f -o 
> routines.o
> gcc -shared -L/usr/local/lib -o sm.so routines.o  -L/usr/local/lib 
> -L/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/2.96 
> -L/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/2.96/../../.. -lreadline -ldl 
> -lncurses -lg2c -lm
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lreadline
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make: *** [sm.so] Error 1
> ERROR: compilation failed for package 'sm'
> 
> [root at rsadler R]# locate readline
> /usr/lib/python1.5/lib-dynload/readline.so
> /usr/lib/python2.2/lib-dynload/readline.so
> /usr/lib/python2.2/lib-dynload/xreadlinesmodule.so
> /usr/lib/libreadline.so.4
> /usr/lib/libreadline.so.4.2
> /usr/lib/libguilereadline.so.0
> /usr/lib/libguilereadline.a
> /usr/lib/libguilereadline.la
> /usr/lib/libguilereadline.so
> /usr/lib/libguilereadline.so.0.0.0
> /usr/lib/libreadline.so.3
> /usr/lib/libreadline.so.3.0
> /usr/lib/R/library/base/R-ex/readline.R
> /usr/lib/R/library/base/help/readline
> /usr/lib/R/library/base/html/readline.html
> /usr/lib/libreadline.so.4.1
> /usr/libexec/rep/0.15.1/i386-redhat-linux/rep/io/readline.a
> /usr/libexec/rep/0.15.1/i386-redhat-linux/rep/io/readline.la
> /usr/libexec/rep/0.15.1/i386-redhat-linux/rep/io/readline.so
> /usr/libexec/rep/0.15.1/i386-redhat-linux/readline.a
> /usr/libexec/rep/0.15.1/i386-redhat-linux/readline.la
> /usr/libexec/rep/0.15.1/i386-redhat-linux/readline.so
> /usr/share/doc/vim-common-6.1/syntax/readline.vim
> /usr/share/doc/python2-docs-2.2/lib/libreadline.tex
> /usr/share/doc/python2-docs-2.2/lib/libxreadlines.tex
> /usr/share/man/man3/readline.3.gz
> /usr/share/info/readline.info.gz
> /usr/share/vim/vim61/indent/readline.vim
> /usr/share/vim/vim61/syntax/readline.vim
> /usr/share/guile/1.3.4/ice-9/readline.scm
> /usr/local/lib/R/library/base/help/readline
> /usr/local/lib/R/library/base/html/readline.html
> /usr/local/lib/R/library/base/latex/readline.tex
> /usr/local/lib/R/library/base/R-ex/readline.R
> /home/rsadler/downloads/R/R-1.5.1/src/library/base/man/readline.Rd
> /home/rsadler/downloads/R/R-1.5.1/library/base/help/readline
> /home/rsadler/downloads/R/R-1.5.1/library/base/html/readline.html
> /home/rsadler/downloads/R/R-1.5.1/library/base/latex/readline.tex
> /home/rsadler/downloads/R/R-1.5.1/library/base/R-ex/readline.R
> 
> -- 
> Ecosystems Research Group (ERGO)
> School of Plant Biology (Botany), Faculty of Natural & Agricultural Sciences,
> The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley  WA  6009, Australia
> 
> Ph:  +61 8 9380 7914
> Fax: +61 8 9380 7925
> email: rsadler at agric.uwa.edu.au
> ERGO's web site:<http://www.botany.uwa.edu.au/ergo>
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-
> r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html
> Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe"
> (in the "body", not the subject !)  To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch
> _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
> 

-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-
r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html
Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe"
(in the "body", not the subject !)  To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch
_._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._