[R-pkg-devel] Build fails on Mavericks

Rainer M Krug Rainer at krugs.de
Thu Nov 19 17:37:30 CET 2015


Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com> writes:

> On 19/11/2015 9:05 AM, Daniel Marcelino wrote:
>> Hi, I'm having this error when building C functions from a package:
>>
>>   clang: error: no such file or directory: '/usr/local/lib/libreadline.a'
>>
>> Apparently, it's a path issue caused by xcode/gfortran, but I couldn't figure out how to solve it.
>> "which gcc" points to "/usr/bin/gcc"
>> Does someone have any idea on how on this?
>
> You didn't say what system you're on, but the message is coming from
> clang, not gcc, so it looks like OSX, and "which gcc" is irrelevant.
> If so, you probably want to ask on the R-sig-mac group.  If not, give
> more details.

Also: did you use the official R installer or installed it using homebrew?

The path looks very much like homebrew. If yes, try installing readline
From homebrew.

Cheers,

Rainer

>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
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