[R] configure error for R-2.0.1

[Peter Dalgaard]

"Sivakumar Ramagopal" <ramagopa at etek.chalmers.se> writes:

> Hi List,
> 
> I'm trying to build R-2.0.1 on and AMD64/Linux (Suse 9.1) and I get the
> following error while running the configure script.
> 
> ...
> checking for dummy main to link with Fortran libraries... none
> checking for Fortran name-mangling scheme... lower case, underscore, extra
> underscore
> checking whether g77 appens underscores to external names... yes
> checking whether mixed C/Fortran code can be run... configure: WARNING:
> cannot run  mixed C/Fortran code
> configure: error: Maybe check LDFLAGS for paths to Fortran libraries?
> 
> I have gcc-3.3.3.

Things do work on that platform, so you're probably missing an RPM or
two. My first guess would be

> rpm -qf `which g77`
gcc-g77-3.3.3-33

and you likely need a bunch of -devel packages too (readline-devel,
XFree86-devel, etc.)

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