I'm having some problems in installing some source packages under linux. As an example, MCMCpack. An error is raised when linking:
> install.packages("MCMCpack") [...] * Installing *source* package 'MCMCpack' ... checking for C++ compiler default output file name... a.out checking whether the C++ compiler works... yes checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of executables... checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes checking for gcc... gcc checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E checking for egrep... grep -E checking for ANSI C header files... yes checking for sys/types.h... yes checking for sys/stat.h... yes checking for stdlib.h... yes checking for string.h... yes checking for memory.h... yes checking for strings.h... yes checking for inttypes.h... yes checking for stdint.h... yes checking for unistd.h... yes checking ieeefp.h usability... no checking ieeefp.h presence... no checking for ieeefp.h... no checking for trunc... no configure: creating ./config.status config.status: creating src/Makevars ** libs g++ -I/usr/lib/R/include -DSCYTHE_COMPILE_DIRECT -DSCYTHE_NO_RANGE -c distributions.cc -o distributions.o [...etc. etc. All compilations are ok] g++ -o MCMCpack.so distributions.o ide.o la.o lecuyer.o MCMCdistn.o MCMCdynamicEI.o MCMCfactanal.o MCMCfcds.o MCMChierEI.o MCMCirt1d.o MCMClogit.o MCMCmetrop1R.o MCMCmixfactanal.o MCMCmnlMH.o MCMCmnlslice.o MCMCoprobit.o MCMCordfactanal.o MCMCpanel.o MCMCpoisson.o MCMCprobit.o MCMCprobitres.o MCMCregress.o MCMCrng.o MCMCtobit.o mersenne.o optimize.o rng.o smath.o stat.o -L/usr/lib/R/lib -lR /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/3.3.5/../../../crt1.o(.text+0x18): In function `_start': ../sysdeps/i386/elf/start.S:98: undefined reference to `main' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [MCMCpack.so] Error 1 ERROR: compilation failed for package 'MCMCpack' I don't know why it searches a reference to 'main'... Antonio, Fabio Di Narzo. > version _ platform i386-pc-linux-gnu arch i386 os linux-gnu system i386, linux-gnu status major 2 minor 1.1 year 2005 month 06 day 20 language R ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html