[R-pkg-devel] Build fails on Mavericks

[Daniel Marcelino]

Yes, I do use homebrew for installing almost everything.

I ended up solving the issue with $ brew link readline --forc
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Daniel

On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 2:37 PM, Rainer M Krug <Rainer at krugs.de> wrote:
> 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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