[Rd] Can't install packages (PR#1486)

[Thomas Lumley]

On Fri, 26 Apr 2002 poizot@cnam.fr wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I install R under Mandrake Linux 8.2.
> R itself work fine, but I had an error to install packages, i.e. fields, geoR
> and geoRglm :
>
> $: R CMD INSTALL geoRglm_0.4-3.tar.gz
> Installing *source* package `geoRglm' ...
>  libs
> gcc-3.0.1 -I/usr/lib/R/include  -I/usr/local/include -mieee-fp
> -D__NO_MATH_INLINES  -fPIC  -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mcpu=pentiumpro
> -march=i586 -fno-fast-math -fno-strength-reduce -c geoRgeoRglm.c -o
> geoRgeoRglm.o
> make: gcc-3.0.1 : Commande introuvable
> make: *** [geoRgeoRglm.o] Erreur 127
> ERROR: compilation failed for package `geoRglm
>
> I suppose that the version of my compiler is not correct, but I didn't find
> where to change that settings.

You could change it in R/etc/Makeconf, but it might not work.  If you
don't have the compiler used to build R there is no guarantee that the
flags and options will be correct or that the output will be binary
compatible.

	-thomas


Thomas Lumley			Asst. Professor, Biostatistics
tlumley@u.washington.edu	University of Washington, Seattle

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