[R] Trouble installing gsl wrapper

[robin hankin]

An interesting exchange.

The package has some installation tips in Misc.Rd, but
perhaps these are not sufficiently prominent.  I think it'd
be a good idea to include a READ.ME file in
inst/doc with installation information,
and include a pointer to this
in the DESCRIPTION file; I'll adapt parts of this thread
for the next release.

Robin




On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 8:14 AM, Gang Chen <gangchen6 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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)
>>
>>
>> --
>> Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
>> Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
>> University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
>> 1 South Parks Road,                     +44 1865 272866 (PA)
>> Oxford OX1 3TG, UK                Fax:  +44 1865 272595
>



-- 
Robin Hankin
Uncertainty Analyst
hankin.robin at gmail.com