On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 17:40 +0200, Martyn Plummer wrote: > On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 17:10 +0200, Peter Dalgaard wrote: > > Martyn Plummer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > The 'recompile with -fPIC' is bullsh*t. The problem is that is is > > > > looking > > > > in /usr/lib64/liblapack.a rather than /usr/lib64/liblapack.so.3 both of > > > > which > > > > exist. Some searching for this error message on Google shows a lot of > > > > questions about this problem but no solution that I found other than > > > > > > > > rm /usr/lib64/liblapack.a > > > > > > > > which I don't consider a solution. It will link with the .so as the > > > > bottom > > > > of the script shows > > .... > > > You would need to modify the LDFLAGS and CPPFLAGS environment variables, > > > as these default to -L/usr/local/lib and -I/usr/local/include > > > respectively. See Appendix B.3.3 of the R Installation and > > > Administration manual, which gives a warning about 64-bit systems. > > > > > > You can also use the --with-readline configure flag to specify the exact > > > location of the readline library you wish to use. > > > > How did _readline_ get into this? > > I meant --with-lapack. My fingers have their very own autocomplete > feature, which is a little buggy. > > > As a curiosity, I tried looking at what Fedora Core 4 does with this. > > So I looked for liblapack.a with locate, and it found one in /usr/lib > > (on a 32bit system). Then I went to have a closer look at the library > > and it turned out not to be there -- apparently the recent update to > > lapack had wiped it out, but the locate database was not yet > > rebuilt... > > Fedora have just split off a separate lapack-devel package containing > the static library and the symlink liblapack.so. (Mandrake/Mandriva has > been doing this for some time. I don't know about SuSE). The up2date > service will recognize that it needs to update lapack, but I guess that > it won't install lapack-devel, as it doesn't know you need it. > > It might have been better to do this in the next release, rather than as > an update to FC4, but there you go. Better install lapack-devel > manually.
Yep, and the same with BLAS - which just caused me to spend half a day wondering why R wasn't being configured with BLAS(generic) anymore when trying out R2.2.0 alpha at home... G > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel -- %~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~% Gavin Simpson [T] +44 (0)20 7679 5522 ENSIS Research Fellow [F] +44 (0)20 7679 7565 ENSIS Ltd. & ECRC [E] gavin.simpsonATNOSPAMucl.ac.uk UCL Department of Geography [W] http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucfagls/cv/ 26 Bedford Way [W] http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucfagls/ London. WC1H 0AP. %~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~% ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
