Marc, Yes - the glibc-devel package was shown to be installed using rpm -qa. It is also one of the packages upgraded by up2date from the original version supplied with the WhiteBox distribution. I concluded that there were probably more such improperly/incompletely upgraded packages and cut my losses. Everything seems to be fine second time around. I must have been unlucky.
Regards Mike > -----Original Message----- > From: Marc Schwartz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 10 August 2004 15:30 > To: Dr Mike Waters > Cc: R-Help > Subject: RE: [R] R packages install problems linux - X not > found(WhiteBoxEL 3) > > > On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 08:15, Dr Mike Waters wrote: > > <snip> > > > >From unpacking the tarball and running ./configure in the R source > > directory, I obtain the fact that crti.o is needed by ld.so and was > > not found. This file is not present on the system. This file, along > > with crtn.o is usually installed by the gnu libc packages, > I believe. > > However, I know that not all *nix distributions include these files > > among their packages. > > >From a web search, I have not been able to ascertain whether this > > >lack of a > > crti.o is due to there not being one in the distribution, or to > > another incomplete package install. > > > > So, I did a completely fresh installation of WhiteBox, > followed by R > > built from source, checked that it ran and then installed the R > > packages. Only then did I run up2date. At least crti.o and > crtn.o are > > still there this time, along with the XFree86 includes..... > > > > A bit of a cautionary tale, all in all. > > > > Thanks for all the help and support. > > > > Regards > > > > M > > > Mike, > > >From my FC2 system: > > $ rpm -qf /usr/lib/crti.o > glibc-devel-2.3.3-27 > > $ rpm -qf /usr/lib/crtn.o > glibc-devel-2.3.3-27 > > So, you are correct relative to the source of these two > files. A follow up question might be, did you include the > "devel" packages during your initial install? If not, that > would explain the lack of these files. if you did, then it > would add another data point to support the notion that your > system was, to some level, compromised and a clean install > was probably needed, rather than just trying to re-create the > RPM database. > > Glad that you are up and running at this point. Given > Martyn's follow up messages, it looks like there may be an > issue with the RH9 RPM, so for the time being using the > source tarball would be appropriate. > > Best regards, > > Marc > > > ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html