On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Timothy H. Keitt wrote: > I'm trying to install a library into R and get the following error > message: > > Installing package `RPgSQL' ... > creating cache ./config.cache > checking for crypt in -lcrypt... yes > checking for PQconnectdb in -lpq... yes > updating cache ./config.cache > creating ./config.status > creating src/Makevars > libs > gcc -I/usr/lib/R/include -I/usr/include/postgresql -I/usr/local/include > -mieee-fp -D__NO_MATH_INLINES -fPIC -g -O2 -c RPgSQL.c -o RPgSQL.o > gcc -shared -lc -shared -o /usr/lib/R/library/RPgSQL/libs/RPgSQL.so > RPgSQL.o -L/usr/local/lib -lcrypt -lpq -lf77blas -lcblas -latlas -lg2c > -lm -L/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-linux/2.95.2 -lm > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lf77blas > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > > What's odd is: > > lilu:~# ls /usr/lib/libf77blas.so.2* > /usr/lib/libf77blas.so.2 /usr/lib/libf77blas.so.2.3 > > Anyone know what's up? not exactly sure, but i think this is the deal -
when you link a .o, you want the static libraries. static in the sense that they get inserted in the computer at link time. these are .a files. *.so.* are dynamic libraries which are used at run time. pete
