Hi. Consider the following situation: Solaris 8, /usr/local has gcc 2.95, my home has gcc 3.4.3, my gcc is first on PATH, LD_LIBRARY_PATH is unset (everything is perfect since I always use -R). In fact, programs compiled with my gcc do not work if LD_LIBRARY_PATH is set to something which has /usr/local/lib before home/lib, because it overrides stored path (-R) and I got
libgcc_s.so.1 (GCC_3.3) => (version not found) I found setting of LD_LIBRARY_PATH in bin/R (how /usr/local/lib get into it at all and especially before PREFIX/lib??? -- there was no LD_LIBRARY_PATH during configure!) and fixed it (although I spent quite a while editing lib/R/bin/R and wondering an abscence of any effect :-) After all the troubles I manage to load an extension, but, frankly, I think there were too many problems. It would be very nice if R-project reject the idea of using LD_LIBRARY_PATH because its setting is considered harmfull and leads to too many problems: http://www.linuxmafia.com/faq/Admin/ld-lib-path.html -- Regards, ASK ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
