Dear list,

as I started installing R-2.15.0 on a Red Hat 4.5.1-4 as well a Ubuntu
10.04.3 systems.
While the basic installation went fine (like the previous R-2.14.2), now
I'm having trouble installing almost one third of the additional libraries
I want (which installed flawlessly with R-2.14.2), among them RODBC for
which I show the message below (obtained on Ubuntu) :

surf_forInstallation_> R  CMD INSTALL RODBC_1.3-5.tar.gz
* installing to library '/linux/biolo/R_surf/R-2.15.0/lib64/R/library'
* installing *source* package 'RODBC' ...
** package 'RODBC' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
checking for gcc...
gcc -std=gnu99
checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C
compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.
ERROR: configuration failed for package 'RODBC'
* removing '/linux/biolo/R_surf/R-2.15.0/lib64/R/library/RODBC'


In fact, I get identical messages on our Red Hat 4.5.1-4 and the Ubuntu
10.04.3 systems mentioned above.
Obviously something with our C compiler(s) didn't work out.
In order to learn more about the problem I tried to look at config.log
mentioned in the installation-message above, however, I cannot find
the file, neither in my current path nor in
 /linux/biolo/R_surf/R-2.15.0/lib64/R/library .
Obviously the RODBC directory doesn't exist any more when the installation
attempt ends.

Any hints ?
I'm new to the Debian-list, but at least I haven't seen similar (recent)
posts on R-help or the bioconductor lists.

For completeness :
> sessionInfo()
R version 2.15.0 (2012-03-30)
Platform: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (64-bit)

locale:
 [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
 [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
 [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
 [7] LC_PAPER=C                 LC_NAME=C
 [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C
[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base


Many thanks in advance,
Wolfgang

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Wolfgang Raffelsberger, PhD
IGBMC,
1 rue Laurent Fries,  67404 Illkirch  Strasbourg,  France
wolfgang.raffelsberger at igbmc.fr

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