[R-SIG-Mac] Problem with readline when building R from source.

[Rolf Turner]

On 21/05/2010, at 4:26 PM, Berend Hasselman wrote:

> 
> On 21-05-2010, at 04:20, Rolf Turner wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On 21/05/2010, at 1:46 PM, Simon Urbanek wrote:
>> 
>>> Rolf,
>>> 
>>> you have broken fink is /sw -- remove it (or move aside) and all should be well :)
>> 
>> 
>> 	Psigh. I'm sure this is getting tedious for you ... but where else can I turn?
>> 
>> 	I did:
>> 
>> 		cd /sw
>> 		sudo mv fink fink.broken
>> 
>> 	Then I tried the ./configure trick again.  Same error message as before.
>> 
>> 	Any other ideas? :-(
> 
> I believe Simon meant: remove or rename /sw and get rid of references to /sw/... in PATH


I believe you're right!  I renamed /sw and did the ./configure thing.  That got me past
the readline problem.  YAYYYYY!!!

But then a new problem reared it's ugly little head.  BOOOOOOO!!!

          .
          .
          .
> checking for Fortran 77 libraries of gfortran...  -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/local/lib/gcc/i686-apple-darwin8/4.2.3 -L/usr/local/lib/gcc/i686-apple-darwin8/4.2.3/../../.. -lgfortranbegin -lgfortran
> checking how to get verbose linking output from gcc -std=gnu99... -v
> checking for C libraries of gcc -std=gnu99...  -lcrt1.10.6.o -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/lib/gcc/i686-apple-darwin10/4.2.1/x86_64 -L/usr/lib/i686-apple-darwin10/4.2.1 -L/usr/lib/gcc/i686-apple-darwin10/4.2.1 -L/usr/lib/gcc/i686-apple-darwin10/4.2.1/../../../i686-apple-darwin10/4.2.1 -L/usr/lib/gcc/i686-apple-darwin10/4.2.1/../../.. -lSystem
> checking for dummy main to link with Fortran 77 libraries... rm: conftest.dSYM: is a directory
> none
> checking for Fortran 77 name-mangling scheme... rm: conftest.dSYM: is a directory
> unknown
> configure: WARNING: unknown Fortran name-mangling scheme
> checking whether gfortran appends underscores to external names... unknown
> configure: error: cannot use Fortran

Any idea what the devil is going on here?  I'm getting very frustrated.  As usual. :-)

	cheers,

		Rolf Turner
> 
######################################################################
Attention: 
This e-mail message is privileged and confidential. If you are not the 
intended recipient please delete the message and notify the sender. 
Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author.

This e-mail has been scanned and cleared by MailMarshal 
www.marshalsoftware.com
######################################################################