[R] Problem installing acepack in debian

[A.J. Rossini]

feh3k at spamcop.net writes:

> using debian testing (latest Knoppix) I get an error when installing acepack: 
>  
> gcc -shared  -o acepack.so ace.o avas.o rlsmo.o  
> -L/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-linux/3.3 -L/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-linux/3.3/../../.. 
> -lfrtbegin -lg2c-pic -lm -lgcc_s -L/usr/lib/R/bin -lR 
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lfrtbegin 
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status 
> make: *** [acepack.so] Error 1 
> ERROR: compilation failed for package 'acepack' 
>  
> Thanks for any assistance anyone can give. 

Frank -- 


I'm a bit confused as to what the problem is -- on a system initially
Knoppix (Quantian 0.3, actually), upgraded to Debian unstable, I get:

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> install.packages("acepack")
trying URL `http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/PACKAGES'
Content type `text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1' length 124592 bytes
opened URL
.......... .......... .......... .......... ..........
.......... .......... .......... .......... ..........
.......... .......... .
downloaded 121Kb

trying URL `http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/acepack_1.3-2.tar.gz'
Content type `application/x-tar' length 18616 bytes
opened URL
.......... ........
downloaded 18Kb

* Installing *source* package 'acepack' ...
** libs
g77 -mieee-fp  -fPIC  -g -O2 -c ace.f -o ace.o
ace.f: In subroutine `mace':
ace.f:89: warning:
         common /prams/ itape,maxit,nterm,span,alpha,big
                 ^
Initial padding for common block `prams' is 4 bytes at (^) -- consider reordering members, largest-type-size first
g77 -mieee-fp  -fPIC  -g -O2 -c avas.f -o avas.o
g77 -mieee-fp  -fPIC  -g -O2 -c rlsmo.f -o rlsmo.o
gcc -shared  -o acepack.so ace.o avas.o rlsmo.o  -L/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/3.3.2 -L/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/3.3.2/../../.. -lfrtbegin -lg2c-pic -lm -lgcc_s -L/usr/lib/R/bin -lR
** R
** help
 >>> Building/Updating help pages for package 'acepack'
     Formats: text html latex example
  ace                               text    html    latex   example
  avas                              text    html    latex   example
* DONE (acepack)

Delete downloaded files (y/N)?

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using:

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502$ gcc -v
Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/3.3.2/specs
Configured with: ../src/configure -v --enable-languages=c,c++,java,f77,pascal,objc,ada,treelang --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/3.3 --enable-shared --with-system-zlib --enable-nls --without-included-gettext --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-debug --enable-java-gc=boehm --enable-java-awt=xlib --enable-objc-gc i486-linux
Thread model: posix
gcc version 3.3.2 20030812 (Debian prerelease)

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though this is using Dirk's debian build of R-devel:

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504$ R --version
R 1.8.0 Under development (unstable) (2003-08-30).
Copyright (C) 2003 R Development Core Team

R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
You are welcome to redistribute it under the terms of the GNU
General Public License.  For more information about these matters,
see http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html.

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best,
-tony

-- 
A.J. Rossini     			
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