Did you build R yourself, or install an rpm? It looks like your installation is missing libreadline, and it was there when R was built. I'm surprised then that R would run, but maybe it is somewhere that the standard LD_LIBRARY_PATH does not find.
You need readline and perhaps readline-devel (if it exists) installed, and they should have been dependencies of the R rpm (if that is what you used). I believe that -lreadline is not needed (and this is solved in R-devel), so you could just edit R_HOME/etc/Makeconf and remove -lreadline (and -lnurses) from FLIBS. On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Angel Lopez-Urrutia wrote: > In a box running Mandrake 9 with R 1.6.2 I get problems when trying to > install packages Matrix and Akima. > It seems my gcc compiler and fortran do not talk to each other. > The errors are: > > * Installing *source* package 'Matrix' ... > checking for gcc... gcc > checking for C compiler default output... 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 ANSI C... none needed > checking whether we are using the GNU Fortran 77 compiler... yes > checking whether g77 accepts -g... yes > checking how to get verbose linking output from g77... -v > checking for Fortran 77 libraries... -L/usr/local/lib > -L/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-mandrake-linux-gnu/3.2 > -L/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-mandrake-linux-gnu/3.2/../../.. -lreadline -ldl > -lncurses -lfrtbegin -lg2c -lm -lgcc_s > checking for dummy main to link with Fortran 77 libraries... unknown > configure: error: linking to Fortran libraries from C fails > ERROR: configuration failed for package 'Matrix' In cases like that, look in config.log. The error message is terse, because it is repeating a test done when R was installed. [...] > gcc -shared -L/usr/local/lib -o akima.so akima.new.o idbvip.o idcldp.o > idgrid.o idlctn.o idpdrv.o idptip.o idptli.o idsfft.o idtang.o idxchg.o > tripack.o ttidbs.o -L/usr/local/lib > -L/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-mandrake-linux-gnu/3.2 > -L/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-mandrake-linux-gnu/3.2/../../.. -lreadline -ldl > -lncurses -lfrtbegin -lg2c -lm -lgcc_s -L/usr/lib/R/bin -lR > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lreadline > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > make: *** [akima.so] Error 1 > ERROR: compilation failed for package 'akima' -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help