You have not given us even minimal information (R version, platform, etc). My guess is that you installed R from an RPM, and you do not have (something like) readline-devel installed. However, this is easily fixed by editing R_HOME/etc/Makeconf and removing '-lreadline -ldl -lncurses' from the FLIBS macro.
This has come up many times, so a search of the archives should be revealing. On Sun, 30 Mar 2003, Philippe Hup� wrote: > Hello, > > I have problem when i am trying to install a package containing fortran source > code. I give below the result of installation for one package (I have always > the same message : /usr/bin/ld: can not find -lreadline): > > g77 -mieee-fp -fPIC -g -O2 -c akima.new.f -o akima.new.o > g77 -mieee-fp -fPIC -g -O2 -c idbvip.f -o idbvip.o > g77 -mieee-fp -fPIC -g -O2 -c idcldp.f -o idcldp.o > g77 -mieee-fp -fPIC -g -O2 -c idgrid.f -o idgrid.o > g77 -mieee-fp -fPIC -g -O2 -c idlctn.f -o idlctn.o > g77 -mieee-fp -fPIC -g -O2 -c idpdrv.f -o idpdrv.o > g77 -mieee-fp -fPIC -g -O2 -c idptip.f -o idptip.o > g77 -mieee-fp -fPIC -g -O2 -c idptli.f -o idptli.o > g77 -mieee-fp -fPIC -g -O2 -c idsfft.f -o idsfft.o > g77 -mieee-fp -fPIC -g -O2 -c idtang.f -o idtang.o > g77 -mieee-fp -fPIC -g -O2 -c idxchg.f -o idxchg.o > g77 -mieee-fp -fPIC -g -O2 -c tripack.f -o tripack.o > g77 -mieee-fp -fPIC -g -O2 -c ttidbs.f -o ttidbs.o > gcc -shared -o akima.so akima.new.o idbvip.o idcldp.o idgrid.o idlctn.o > idpdrv.o idptip.o idptli.o idsfft.o idtang.o idxchg.o tripack.o ttidbs.o > -L/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-linux/2.95.4 -lreadline -ldl -lncurses -lg2c-pic -lm > -L/usr/lib/R/bin -lR > /usr/bin/ld: can not find -lreadline > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > make: *** [akima.so] Erreur 1 > ERROR: compilation failed for package 'akima' -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
