Dear all,

I just went around the error I got. For your record, in case someone
encounter this again, the problem was in the "zlib" compression utility (
/usr/local/lib64/libz.a: could not read symbols: Bad value)  which was not
compiled in my machine using the "-fPIC" flag. It turns out that this
library is used by the "png" module in R, therefore I just compiled R with
no "png" support  (./configure --with-libpng=no)  and everything went OK.

Thanks
Amr


On 2/3/07, Amr Ahmed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to install R on a linux machine. The output of running
> ./configure is
>
> ==============================
> R is now configured for x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
>
>   Source directory:          .
>   Installation directory:    /usr/local
>
>   C compiler:                gcc  -g -O2 -std=gnu99
>   Fortran 77 compiler:       g77  -g -O2
>
>   C++ compiler:              g++  -g -O2
>   Fortran 90/95 compiler:    gfortran -g -O2
>
>   Interfaces supported:      X11, tcltk
>   External libraries:        readline
>   Additional capabilities:   PNG, JPEG, iconv, MBCS, NLS
>   Options enabled:           shared BLAS, R profiling
>
>   Recommended packages:      yes
> ================================
>
>
> however when I run "make" I got the following error:
>
>
> ================================
> gcc -shared -L/usr/local/lib64 -o R_X11.so dataentry.o devX11.o rotated.o
> rbitmap.o  -lSM -lICE -L/usr/X11R6/lib64 -lX11 -lXt  -ljpeg -lpng -lz  -lm
> /usr/bin/ld: /usr/local/lib64/libz.a(crc32.o): relocation R_X86_64_32
> against `a local symbol' can not be used when making a shared object;
> recompile with -fPIC
> /usr/local/lib64/libz.a: could not read symbols: Bad value
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[4]: *** [R_X11.so] Error 1
> make[4]: Leaving directory `/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/amahmed/R-2.4.0
> /src/modules/X11'
> make[3]: *** [R] Error 2
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/amahmed/R-2.4.0
> /src/modules/X11'
> make[2]: *** [R] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/amahmed/R-2.4.0
> /src/modules'
> make[1]: *** [R] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/amahmed/R-2.4.0/src'
> make: *** [R] Error 1
> ================================
>
> I think the error is critical as when I want to run R from the command
> line I got the following error:
>
> =======================
> $./R
> ./R: error while loading shared libraries: libRblas.so: cannot open shared
> object file: No such file or directory[
> =======================
>
> Any idea? I just want to be able to run R from command line, no need for
> gui interface.
>
> Thanks
> Amr
>
>
>
>
>

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