[R] Probelms installing package RMySQL (Dominic Senn)

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Sun, 23 Oct 2005, Jeff Ryan wrote:

> Make sure you have your environment variable LDFLAGS set to "-L/usr/
> lib", otherwise I believe the linker doesn't look there.

That is on the system default ld path on all known systems, including 
Solaris 8.

> You can check where R looks in the Makeconf file, under LDFLAGS.

Those are _additional_ places.

> Not too sure though - just slogged through building on a brand new
> Solaris box, and that was my problem. I am sure there are others who
> know FAR more than I.

Note that Dominic Senn had already replied to say this problem was solved: 
see

https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2005-October/079897.html

>
> jeff
> On Oct 23, 2005, at 5:00 AM, r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch wrote:
>
>> [R] Probelms installing package RMySQL (Dominic Senn)
>
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