[R-sig-Debian] Installing RCurl -

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 2 January 2014 at 13:41, Hadley Wickham wrote:
| This line seems suspicious:
| 
| checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error:
| C compiler cannot create executables
| See `config.log' for more details.
| 
| Have you installed the R development package?

+1

Søren, when we say "install libcurl4-*-dev" we mean this as shorthand saying
"besides the build environment you should already have".  So please also do

         sudo apt-get install r-base-dev

and then try again.  Share all relevant logs with us.

Dirk

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