[R] configure error for R-2.0.1

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Sivakumar Ramagopal wrote:

> I'm trying to build R-2.0.1 on and AMD64/Linux (Suse 9.1) and I get the
> following error while running the configure script.
>
> ...
> checking for dummy main to link with Fortran libraries... none
> checking for Fortran name-mangling scheme... lower case, underscore, extra
> underscore
> checking whether g77 appens underscores to external names... yes
> checking whether mixed C/Fortran code can be run... configure: WARNING:
> cannot run mixed C/Fortran code
> configure: error: Maybe check LDFLAGS for paths to Fortran libraries?
>
> I have gcc-3.3.3.

Have you done as it suggests?  Please see the R posting guide and make 
sure you give us enough information to help you.  One place to look is in 
config.log.

R 2.0.1 does build on AMD64 with gcc 3.3.3, but SuSE does seem to use 
non-standard paths (that is, not those from the gcc sources).  In 
particular, is this a 32- or 64-bit build and if the latter is /lib64 in 
the library path?

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