[R] Trouble installing gsl wrapper

[Gang Chen]

You nailed it, Prof. Ripley! Thanks a lot...

Gang

On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 2:58 PM, Prof Brian Ripley
<ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Oct 2010, Gang Chen wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm trying to install the gsl wrapper source code
>> (http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/gsl_1.9-8.tar.gz) on a Linux
>> system (OpenSuse 11.1), but encountering the following problem. I've
>> already installed 'gsl' version 1.14
>> (ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gsl/gsl-1.14.tar.gz) on the system. What's
>> missing? Thanks a lot...
>
> Installing the gsl library correctly?  I need to guess quite a bit here (and
> a clean install attempt would have given a few more clues).
>
> I suspect you installed into /usr/local/lib whereas your OS probably uses
> /usr/local/lib64 (most x86_64 Linuxen do, and you seem to be using lib64 for
> R).  In that case ld.so most likely will not find the dynamic library in
> /usr/local/lib.
>
> You can avoid such problems by installing auxiliary software such as gsl
> from RPMs -- I would be very surprised if OpenSuse did not have gsl and
> gsl-devel RPMs.  Otherwise you need to install from the sources by something
> like
>
> make install libdir=/usr/local/lib64
>
>>
>>> R CMD INSTALL gsl
>>
>> * installing to library ‘/usr/lib64/R/library’
>> * installing *source* package ‘gsl’ ...
>> checking for gsl-config... /usr/local/bin/gsl-config
>> checking if GSL version >= 1.12... checking for gcc... gcc
>> checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
>> checking whether the C compiler works... yes
>> checking whether we are cross compiling... no
>> checking for suffix of executables...
>> checking for suffix of object files... o
>> checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
>> checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
>> checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
>> yes
>> configure: creating ./config.status
>> config.status: creating src/Makevars
>> ** libs
>> make: Nothing to be done for `all'.
>
> This was not a clean install ....
>
>> installing to /usr/lib64/R/library/gsl/libs
>> ** R
>> ** inst
>> ** preparing package for lazy loading
>> ** help
>> *** installing help indices
>> ** building package indices ...
>> ** testing if installed package can be loaded
>> Error in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...) :
>>  unable to load shared object '/usr/lib64/R/library/gsl/libs/gsl.so':
>>  libgsl.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
>> ERROR: loading failed
>> * removing ‘/usr/lib64/R/library/gsl’
>>
>>> sessionInfo()
>>
>> R version 2.12.0 (2010-10-15)
>> Platform: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (64-bit)
>
>
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