[R] problems with RPostgreSQL compilation

[Pascal Oettli]

Hello,

Do you have the shared libraries required by PostgreSQL installed on 
your machine (libpq)?

Regards,
Pascal

Le 22/11/2012 18:45, lanczos at t-zones.sk a écrit :
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to install RPostgreSQL, but without success at the moment, getting an errormessage - see below.
> My OS is Fedora 17, R version 2.15.2, PostgreSQL 9.2.1 with Postgis 2.0.1 spatial extension.
>
> Thank You for any help, advice or hint in advance.
>
> Regards
>
> Tomas
>
>
>> install.packages("RPostgreSQL", dependencies=TRUE)
> trying URL 'http://cran.fyxm.net/src/contrib/RPostgreSQL_0.3-3.tar.gz'
> Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 474570 bytes (463 Kb)
> opened URL
> ==================================================
> downloaded 463 Kb
>
> * installing *source* package ‘RPostgreSQL’ ...
> ** package ‘RPostgreSQL’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
> 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
> checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
> checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
> checking target system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
> checking for pg_config... /usr/bin/pg_config
> checking for "/usr/include/libpq-fe.h"... yes
> configure: creating ./config.status
> config.status: creating src/Makevars
> ** libs
> gcc -std=gnu99 -I/usr/local/lib64/R/include -DNDEBUG -I/usr/include -I/usr/local/include    -fpic  -g -O2  -c RS-DBI.c -o RS-DBI.o
> gcc -std=gnu99 -I/usr/local/lib64/R/include -DNDEBUG -I/usr/include -I/usr/local/include    -fpic  -g -O2  -c RS-PQescape.c -o RS-PQescape.o
> gcc -std=gnu99 -I/usr/local/lib64/R/include -DNDEBUG -I/usr/include -I/usr/local/include    -fpic  -g -O2  -c RS-PostgreSQL.c -o RS-PostgreSQL.o
> gcc -std=gnu99 -I/usr/local/lib64/R/include -DNDEBUG -I/usr/include -I/usr/local/include    -fpic  -g -O2  -c RS-pgsql-copy.c -o RS-pgsql-copy.o
> gcc -std=gnu99 -I/usr/local/lib64/R/include -DNDEBUG -I/usr/include -I/usr/local/include    -fpic  -g -O2  -c RS-pgsql-getResult.c -o RS-pgsql-getResult.o
> gcc -std=gnu99 -I/usr/local/lib64/R/include -DNDEBUG -I/usr/include -I/usr/local/include    -fpic  -g -O2  -c RS-pgsql-pqexec.c -o RS-pgsql-pqexec.o
> gcc -std=gnu99 -shared -L/usr/local/lib64 -o RPostgreSQL.so RS-DBI.o RS-PQescape.o RS-PostgreSQL.o RS-pgsql-copy.o RS-pgsql-getResult.o RS-pgsql-pqexec.o -L/usr/lib -lpq
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lpq
> collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
> make: *** [RPostgreSQL.so] Error 1
> ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘RPostgreSQL’
> * removing ‘/usr/local/lib64/R/library/RPostgreSQL’
>
> The downloaded source packages are in
> 	‘/tmp/Rtmpv5LkJj/downloaded_packages’
> Updating HTML index of packages in '.Library'
> Making packages.html  ... done
> Warning message:
> In install.packages("RPostgreSQL", dependencies = TRUE) :
>    installation of package ‘RPostgreSQL’ had non-zero exit status
>
> --
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