Ah, with some different google searches, I found an older report of this problem:
http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/R-2-12-0-beta-r53110-fails-make-check-on-Ubuntu-hardy-td2954249.html http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.r.devel/25646 Further below is the configure output from my from-source build. It says "External libraries: [...] BLAS(generic)", so apparently the Ubuntu-provided BLAS is bad? Really?! I also don't know how to get that sort of configure information from an already installed R. Can you advise please? I suspect R is linked against libraries from Ubuntu's libblas3gf 1.2-2build1 package (which is the Fortran 77 reference implementation, modulo any Debian tweaks), but I'm not sure, and I don't know how to check. (Perhaps I need some magic ar, nm, or objdump incantation?) I think my from-source builds on older versions of Ubuntu have used the built-in BLAS provided by R, but something has switched it on me. I suspect the main solution for me is to figure out how to either switch back to the built-in BLAS, or to a faster optimized BLAS like Atlas. Any advice on how I should best straighten this would be appreciated... Ideally, I'd like to fix both the stock Ubuntu R and my own from-source installs. However of the two, making the from-source install correct is much more important to me. On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 10:18:55AM -0400, Andrew Piskorski wrote: > # R I just built from scratch, same failure as stock R: > andy@n88:~$ /usr/local/pkg/R-2.12-branch-20110914/bin/R -q --vanilla > > dtk.R.version() > [1] "R 2.12.2 (Patched), 2011-03-18, svn.rev 57004, i686-pc-linux-gnu" Here's the corresponding build configuration: ------------------------------------------------------------ R is now configured for i686-pc-linux-gnu Source directory: .. Installation directory: /usr/local/pkg/R-2.12-branch-20110914 C compiler: gcc -std=gnu99 -g -O2 Fortran 77 compiler: gfortran -g -O2 C++ compiler: g++ -g -O2 Fortran 90/95 compiler: gfortran -g -O2 Obj-C compiler: Interfaces supported: X11, tcltk External libraries: readline, BLAS(generic), LAPACK(generic) Additional capabilities: PNG, JPEG, NLS Options enabled: shared R library, R profiling, Java -- Andrew Piskorski <[email protected]> http://www.piskorski.com/ _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
