[R-sig-Debian] gcc: error: SHLIB_LIBADD: No such file or directory

[Marius Hofert]

... okay, 'sudo locale-gen en_US.UTF-8' was missing. It now works and
make succeeds.

Thanks a lot!

Cheers,
Marius

On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 9:52 PM, Marius Hofert <marius.hofert at tum.de> wrote:
> Dear Johannes,
>
> thanks for helping.
>
> I executed 'sudo locale-gen' and obtained:
> Generating locales...
> de_AT.UTF-8... up-to-date
> de_BE.UTF-8... up-to-date
> de_CH.UTF-8... up-to-date
> de_DE.UTF-8... up-to-date
> de_LI.UTF-8... up-to-date
> de_LU.UTF-8... up-to-date
> Generation complete.
>
> I then checked /etc/default/locale and it contains:
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>
> According to http://askubuntu.com/questions/383349/ubuntu-13-10-perl-complaining-about-setting-locale,
> this should suffice (?)
>
> Nevertheless, 'make' brings many of these '1: Setting LC_CTYPE failed,
> using "C"' warnings... not sure what has to be set.
>
> Cheers,
> Marius
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 9:31 PM, Johannes Ranke <jranke at uni-bremen.de> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> well, if you mean the CRAN repositories by "the deb/Ubuntu way", this is
>> failure is because there are no arm binaries on CRAN for Ubuntu.
>>
>> Your problem may still be related to locale settings:
>>
>>> >> I also
>>> >> installed all the tools I have on my Desktop Ubuntu without
>>> >> problems on the Nexus 5 Ubuntu. I then wanted to install R-3.0.2 (from
>>> >> source). 'make' runs fine up to installing MASS:
>>> >>
>>> >> make[2]: Entering directory
>>> >> `/usr/local/R/R-3.0.2-build/src/library/Recommended' begin installing
>>> >> recommended package MASS
>>> >> During startup - Warning messages:
>>> >> 1: Setting LC_CTYPE failed, using "C"
>>               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>
>> Did you check if your locale is really available on your system and has been
>> generated by locale-gen?
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> Johannes