[R-sig-ME] errors compiling minqa during lme4 install

[Pantelis Z. Hadjipantelis]

On 05/10/13 11:50, Dan McCloy wrote:
> removing / reinstalling Rcpp.  No change.  Installing
> RcppEigen fails with the same error as minqa, though I doubt that is
> helpfully informative.  I don't know much about C(++) or make, but it
> looks to me like there's no space between the -L and the library path.
>   I assume that's normal?
Yes, it is normal. It is standard gcc syntax.

It is actually helpful to know that the same error exists. Given that 
both packages try to compile certain C++ files it means that most 
probably your C++ installation is the issue.

What version of gcc do you have by the way? Maybe running an update on 
it could be helpful.

Also out of curiosity : Do you have libc-dev-bin and libc6-dev 
installed? I vaguely remember that the first ever time I tried to 
install minqa I ran to some problems but then I went ahead installed a 
couple of *-dev files and ever since everything has been fine (sorry it 
has been about two years ago, I can't recall what exactly I installed.)

*/Rcpp/lib in my system also contains just:  libRcpp.a and libRcpp.so, 
so don't worry, you aren't missing something there.

For the record my installation is R 3.0.2, RcppEigen_0.3.1.2.1, 
Rcpp_0.10.3, lme4_1.0-4 and minqa_1.2.1.

Pantelis.