Our experience (and that of several others) is that you need Java 1.6 on x86_64 Linux for any of the JNI-using R packages to work correctly. E.g. the CRAN check machine is using 1.6.
On Thu, 12 Jul 2007, chuckanut wrote: > Sorry if this isn't the correct list, but I couldn't find any mailing > lists on the JRI site. Please see the posting guide: that asks you to ask the maintainer (who knows about the problems). > I am able to install JRI on a 32 bin linux > machine without any problem, but I am unable to isntall on a 64 bit > machine. I have R installed with the correct option, R_HOME is set up > and libR.so is in there. However, I get the following error when > running "./configure", any help is appreciated You need to read config.log: we can't read it for you as it is on your machine. > checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu > checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu > 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 ANSI C... none needed > checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E > checking for egrep... grep -E > checking for ANSI C header files... yes > checking for java... /usr/java/jdk1.5.0_11/bin/java > checking for javac... /usr/java/jdk1.5.0_11/bin/javac > checking for javah... /usr/java/jdk1.5.0_11/bin/javah > checking for jar... /usr/java/jdk1.5.0_11/bin/jar > checking whether Java interpreter works... yes > checking for Java environment... in /usr/java/jdk1.5.0_11 > checking for /usr/java/jdk1.5.0_11/include/jni.h... yes > checking for /usr/java/jdk1.5.0_11/include/./jni_md.h... no > checking for /usr/java/jdk1.5.0_11/include/linux/jni_md.h... yes > checking whether JNI programs can be compiled... configure: error: > Cannot compile a simple JNI program. See config.log for details. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ -- 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 ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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.