[R-SIG-Mac] question about installing from source

[Simon Urbanek]

On Oct 20, 2009, at 11:44 PM, Mark Daniel Ward wrote:

> I am trying to install the Rcartogram library.  I've never had  
> trouble doing
> this before, but I recently upgraded to Snow Leopard, which may be  
> causing a
> problem.  I do have FFTW3 installed on my machine, and I've never  
> had trouble
> with it before either.  I even tried installing FFTW3 again, but  
> this did not
> seem to fix the problem.
>

You have compiled FFTW3 for 64-bit (the default on SL) yet you're  
trying to use it in 32-bit R. So either use 64-bit R (R --arch=x86_64)  
or compile FFTW3 for 32-bit (i.e., don't forget to add -arch i386 to  
CC and/or other compilers that may be needed).

Cheers,
Simon


> Here is the error I get when trying to install the Rcartogram  
> library from
> Omegahat.  If anyone has any suggestions, I would really appreciate  
> it.
>
> #######################################################################
>
>> install.packages("Rcartogram", repos="http://www.omegahat.org/R/",
> type="source")
> trying URL 'http://www.omegahat.org/R/src/contrib/ 
> Rcartogram_0.2-2.tar.gz'
> Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 123576 bytes (120 Kb)
> opened URL
> ==================================================
> downloaded 120 Kb
>
> * Installing *source* package ‘Rcartogram’ ...
> checking for pkg-config... no
> Looking for fftw3 files in /usr/local
> checking for gcc... gcc
> checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
> checking whether the C compiler works... yes
> checking whether we are cross compiling... no
> checking for suffix of executables...
> checking for suffix of object files... o
> checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
> checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
> checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
> Can compile with fftw3.h
> checking for fftw_malloc in -lfftw3... yes
> Trying to link against libfftw3
> Can link against libfftw3
> configure: creating ./config.status
> config.status: creating src/Makevars
> ** libs
> ** arch - i386
> gcc -arch i386 -std=gnu99 -I/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/ 
> Resources/include -
> I/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/include/i386 -I/usr/local/ 
> include/ -
> DNOPROGRESS -I/usr/local/include    -fPIC  -g -O2 -c Rcart.c -o  
> Rcart.o
> gcc -arch i386 -std=gnu99 -I/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/ 
> Resources/include -
> I/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/include/i386 -I/usr/local/ 
> include/ -
> DNOPROGRESS -I/usr/local/include    -fPIC  -g -O2 -c cart.c -o cart.o
> gcc -arch i386 -std=gnu99 -dynamiclib -Wl,- 
> headerpad_max_install_names -mmacosx-
> version-min=10.4 -undefined dynamic_lookup -single_module - 
> multiply_defined
> suppress -L/usr/local/lib -o Rcartogram.so Rcart.o cart.o -L/usr/ 
> local/lib -
> lfftw3 -lfftw3 -F/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/.. -framework R - 
> Wl,-framework
> -Wl,CoreFoundation
> ld: warning: in /usr/local/lib/libfftw3.a, file is not of required  
> architecture
> ld: warning: duplicate dylib /usr/local/lib/libgcc_s.1.dylib
> ** R
> ** data
> ** demo
> ** preparing package for lazy loading
> ** help
> *** installing help indices
>>>> Building/Updating help pages for package 'Rcartogram'
>     Formats: text html latex example
>  addBoundary                       text    html    latex   example
>  cartogram                         text    html    latex   example
>  uspop                             text    html    latex   example
> ** building package indices ...
> * DONE (Rcartogram)
>
> The downloaded packages are in
> 	‘/private/var/folders/bP/bPCSLe+IHZab-XXPI9KflE+++TM/-Tmp-
> /RtmpZhzOMh/downloaded_packages’
> Updating HTML index of packages in '.Library'
>
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