Thanks for the response Laurent. I'll give it a go and let you know how it
works out.
-Paul.
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 7:18 PM, laurent oget <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This definitely looks weird. I have built rpy and rpy2 on 64-bit
> linux, but this was always using a python i built before, since the
> machine i am using come with an antiquated python in the distribution.
> I just looked at one of those machine and I noticed my hand-built
> python does not have a libpython.so but only a libpython.a .
>
> Now that i think about it i am not sure you can use a stripped library
> to link against. how would the linker know the address of those
> symbols in this library?
>
> In any case building your own python might be a workaround...
>
> Laurent
>
>
>
>
>
> 2008/11/14 Paul Geeleher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > Hi
> >
> > I posted this message about 10 days ago and I didn't get a reply, so I'm
> > going to chance re-posting, hopefully somebody can help me out because I
> > still haven't managed to fix it...
> >
> > _______________
> >
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm trying to install Rpy on a 64 bit Suse Enterprise Edition Server. I'm
> > running R version 2.6.2 and python version 2.5.1 and Rpy 1.0.3. I've set
> up
> > the path
> > to the R library by creating a link to libR.so and running ldconfig.
> > I've got the python-devel package installed. I'm getting the following
> > error when I run "python setup.py install"
> >
> >
> > RHOMES= []
> > DEBUG= True
> > Setting RHOMES to ['/usr/local/lib64/R']
> > ### Using R verion 2.6.2 installed at /usr/local/lib64/R ###
> > RHOME= /usr/local/lib64/R
> > copying src/rpymodule.c -> src/rpymodule2062.c
> > copying src/R_eval.c -> src/R_eval2062.c
> > copying src/io.c -> src/io2062.c
> > running install
> > running build
> > running build_py
> > running build_ext
> > building '_rpy2062' extension
> > gcc -pthread -shared build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.5/src/rpymodule2062.o
> > build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.5/src/R_eval2062.o
> > build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.5/src/io2062.o
> > build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.5/src/setenv.o -L/usr/local/lib64/R/bin
> > -L/usr/local/lib64/R/lib -L/usr/lib64 -Wl,-R/usr/local/lib64/R/bin
> > -Wl,-R/usr/local/lib64/R/lib -lR -lRlapack -lpython2.5 -o
> > build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.5/_rpy2062.so
> > /usr/lib64/libpython2.5.so: file not recognized: File format not
> recognized
> > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> > error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1
> >
> > ------------------------------------
> >
> > So the file libpython2.5.so seems to be throwing up some kind of a
> problem.
> >
> > The output of 'file libpython2.5.so' is:
> > "libpython2.5.so: symbolic link to `libpython2.5.so.1.0'"
> >
> > So its a link and the output of 'file libpython2.5.so.1.0' is:
> > "libpython2.5.so.1.0: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, AMD x86-64, version 1
> > (SYSV), stripped"
> >
> >
> >
> > Any ideas here guys? (please!)
> >
> > -Paul.
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