Thanks for your responses!
I guess R was installed using the enterprise version (not fedora) rpm
package. The version of libgfortran is "libgfortran43-4.3.2-7.el5" and I
have libgfortran.so.3.

>From your email, I understand that libgfortran.so.1 is different from
libgfortran.so.3, and that _gfortran_copy_string is not used in the
libgfortran.so.3. Is that correct?

I see the libgfortran.so.1 is available for Fedora. would it work on RHEL5?
If not, where can I download libgfortran.so.1 for RHEL5?

Thanks much in advance.
Santosh


On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 11:49 PM, Prof Brian Ripley <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk>wrote:

> On Sat, 6 Jun 2009, Zeljko Vrba wrote:
>
>  On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 08:27:45PM -0700, Santosh wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> When I run the following:
>>> nm /usr/lib64/R/library/stats/libs/stats.so | grep _gfortran_copy_string
>>>
>>>  You probably need to install libraries related to gfortran.
>>
>
> Yes, specifically libgfortran.  Look at rpm -qa | grep libgfortran to see
> what versions are installed (if any).
>
> But how was R installed?  If this was installed from an RPM it should have
> satisfied such dependencies (and R-sig-fedora would be a more appropriate
> list).
>
> I think the issue relates to the version of libgfortran, and I've seen it
> using binaries compiled on an older version of Fedora. Maybe that symbol is
> used by gfortran 4.1.x and not by 4.3.x, so is in libgfortran.so.1 but not
> in libgfortran.so.3.  If this were Fedora, I would be sugggesting installing
> the compat-libgfortran-41 RPM.
>
> --
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