[R] excluding libraries at configure

[Roger Koenker]

Thanks Thomas...but it was simpler that this...as Don MacQueen suggested
it was just a matter of renaming /sw and then reconfiguring...


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On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, Thomas Lumley wrote:

> On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, Roger Koenker wrote:
>
> > I'm trying build R-1.8.1 on an apple g4 that I've just upgraded
> > to panther.  Configure quits with complaints about  "linking
> > to Fortran libraries from C fails".  Based on some comparisons
> > with a fresh g5 install that worked...I conjecture that this
> > is due to the fact that /sw/lib on the g4 contains lots of stuff from
> > the prior jaguar installation, and ./configure wants to include
> > -L/sw/lib.
>
> This doesn't answer your question but might solve your problem: this
> symptom occurs for a number of people who have installed teTeX using the
> i-installer distribution.  One of the optional packages is `wmf + iconv
> support" which installs an incompatible version of libiconv in
> /usr/local/lib.  Removing this works for us.
>
> 	-thomas
>
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