You nailed it, Prof. Ripley! Thanks a lot... Gang
On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 2:58 PM, Prof Brian Ripley <rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote: > On Sat, 30 Oct 2010, Gang Chen wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I'm trying to install the gsl wrapper source code >> (http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/gsl_1.9-8.tar.gz) on a Linux >> system (OpenSuse 11.1), but encountering the following problem. I've >> already installed 'gsl' version 1.14 >> (ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gsl/gsl-1.14.tar.gz) on the system. What's >> missing? Thanks a lot... > > Installing the gsl library correctly? I need to guess quite a bit here (and > a clean install attempt would have given a few more clues). > > I suspect you installed into /usr/local/lib whereas your OS probably uses > /usr/local/lib64 (most x86_64 Linuxen do, and you seem to be using lib64 for > R). In that case ld.so most likely will not find the dynamic library in > /usr/local/lib. > > You can avoid such problems by installing auxiliary software such as gsl > from RPMs -- I would be very surprised if OpenSuse did not have gsl and > gsl-devel RPMs. Otherwise you need to install from the sources by something > like > > make install libdir=/usr/local/lib64 > >> >>> R CMD INSTALL gsl >> >> * installing to library ‘/usr/lib64/R/library’ >> * installing *source* package ‘gsl’ ... >> checking for gsl-config... /usr/local/bin/gsl-config >> checking if GSL version >= 1.12... 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 ISO C89... none needed >> yes >> configure: creating ./config.status >> config.status: creating src/Makevars >> ** libs >> make: Nothing to be done for `all'. > > This was not a clean install .... > >> installing to /usr/lib64/R/library/gsl/libs >> ** R >> ** inst >> ** preparing package for lazy loading >> ** help >> *** installing help indices >> ** building package indices ... >> ** testing if installed package can be loaded >> Error in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...) : >> unable to load shared object '/usr/lib64/R/library/gsl/libs/gsl.so': >> libgsl.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory >> ERROR: loading failed >> * removing ‘/usr/lib64/R/library/gsl’ >> >>> sessionInfo() >> >> R version 2.12.0 (2010-10-15) >> Platform: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (64-bit) > > > -- > Brian D. Ripley, rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk > Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ > University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) > 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) > Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.