On 8 December 2008 at 06:22, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | | gcc -std=gnu99 -I/usr/share/R/include -fpic -g -O2 -c mboost.c -o mboost.o | | gcc -std=gnu99 -shared -o mboost.so mboost.o -lf77blas -latlas -lgfortran -lm | | -L/usr/lib/R/lib -lR | | /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lf77blas | | collect2: ld returned 1 exit status | | make: *** [mboost.so] Error 1 | | ERROR: compilation failed for package 'mboost' | | | | I guess this has something to do with the removal of the g77 package from Ubuntu | | 8.10. Is there anything I can do short of compiling g77 and/or R myself? | | It is not g77 itself (which was replaced by the improved gfortran), it | appears to be a Fortran-built BLAS library for linear algebra. | | As I have no issue building these package, let's see where this library comes from: | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ locate libf77blas.so | /usr/lib/libf77blas.so | /usr/lib/libf77blas.so.3gf | /usr/lib/libf77blas.so.3gf.0 | | and hence | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -S /usr/lib/libf77blas.so | libatlas-base-dev: /usr/lib/libf77blas.so | | So 'sudo apt-get install libatlas-base-dev' should fix it for you.
Something may change in the build process. R wants this 'f77blas' library as it was encoded at configure time for R itself. My Debian testing box has [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ grep blas /etc/R/Makeconf BLAS_LIBS = -lblas [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ which is correct: 'blas' is library that can be provide by atlas (fast, big package) or refblas (smaller). My Ubuntu system (using our CRAN binaries for R) has [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ grep blas /etc/R/Makeconf BLAS_LIBS = -lf77blas -latlas [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ which is what you have, and which may have gotten there by accident. The odd bit is that I had autobuilds of Debian R packages fail on just one minor architecture (mips) for the same reason -- so maybe something changed at the atlas library / compiler intersection. Dirk -- Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions. _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list R-SIG-Debian@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
