[R] Problem installing acepack in debian

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Sun, 31 Aug 2003, A.J. Rossini wrote:

> 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:

It is pretty clearly a difference between the system used to build R and
that used to install the library.  I am pretty sure you can just delete
-lfrtbegin from FLIBS in R_HOME/etc/Makeconf, but it is part of a proper
gcc/g77 installation and so should be there.

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