[R] Installation Help

[Prof Brian Ripley]

You have an incompatible libz.a in /usr/local/lib64, without the 
corresponding libz.so.  That is *not* the default on any 'linux machine' I 
have ever seen.  Please remove it, and make sure you have the system 
shared libz installed.

Also, why are you installing the obsolete R-2.4.0?

On Sat, 3 Feb 2007, Amr Ahmed wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am trying to install R on a linux machine. The output of running
> ./configure is
>
> ==============================
> R is now configured for x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
>
>  Source directory:          .
>  Installation directory:    /usr/local
>
>  C compiler:                gcc  -g -O2 -std=gnu99
>  Fortran 77 compiler:       g77  -g -O2
>
>  C++ compiler:              g++  -g -O2
>  Fortran 90/95 compiler:    gfortran -g -O2
>
>  Interfaces supported:      X11, tcltk
>  External libraries:        readline
>  Additional capabilities:   PNG, JPEG, iconv, MBCS, NLS
>  Options enabled:           shared BLAS, R profiling
>
>  Recommended packages:      yes
> ================================
>
>
> however when I run "make" I got the following error:
>
>
> ================================
> gcc -shared -L/usr/local/lib64 -o R_X11.so dataentry.o devX11.o rotated.o
> rbitmap.o  -lSM -lICE -L/usr/X11R6/lib64 -lX11 -lXt  -ljpeg -lpng -lz  -lm
> /usr/bin/ld: /usr/local/lib64/libz.a(crc32.o): relocation R_X86_64_32
> against `a local symbol' can not be used when making a shared object;
> recompile with -fPIC
> /usr/local/lib64/libz.a: could not read symbols: Bad value
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[4]: *** [R_X11.so] Error 1
> make[4]: Leaving directory `/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/amahmed/R-2.4.0
> /src/modules/X11'
> make[3]: *** [R] Error 2
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/amahmed/R-2.4.0
> /src/modules/X11'
> make[2]: *** [R] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/amahmed/R-2.4.0
> /src/modules'
> make[1]: *** [R] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/amahmed/R-2.4.0/src'
> make: *** [R] Error 1
> ================================
>
> I think the error is critical as when I want to run R from the command line
> I got the following error:
>
> =======================
> $./R
> ./R: error while loading shared libraries: libRblas.so: cannot open shared
> object file: No such file or directory[
> =======================
>
> Any idea? I just want to be able to run R from command line, no need for gui
> interface.
>
> Thanks
> Amr
>
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