On 12 January 2012 at 21:21, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | | On 12 January 2012 at 21:30, Peter Muhlberger wrote: | | Apologies if this has been posted about recently, but I haven't been | | on this listserve for a while. | | That is rude. This was discussed, and a fix layed out, within the last 24 hours. | | | I ran into a problem trying to compile Hmisc (required package for | | 1) r-cran-hmisc was part of Debian for years. Why compile? | | 2) r-cran-rms is part of Debian, the 'rms' package has replaced Hmisc /years | ago/ upstream.
Sorry, I confused Hmisc (which I have been maintaining in Debian since long before it was on CRAN) with Design. Hmisc is of course still in Debian and Ubuntu; only Design was replaced by rms. Dirk | | | rms) and have found a solution that I'd like to share. The compile | | fails with the message: | | | | /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lquadmath | | | | libquadmath exists on my Debian Squeeze system (up-to-date, recently installed): | | | | ldconfig -p | grep libquad* | | libquadmath.so.0 (libc6,x86-64) => | | /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libquadmath.so.0 | | | | The problem appears to be that libquadmath.so.0 is buried in the | | directory x86_64-linux-gnu where the compiler apparently can't see it. | | | | The fix is: | | | | cd /usr/lib | | sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libquadmath.so.0 /usr/lib/libquadmath.so | | | | Now, the compile works. | | | | Whoever is setting up R or R packages for Debian should try to insure | | that users don't have to apply fixes like the one above. | | Nonsense. Look at the compile logs of /hundreds/ of r-cran-* packages across | /more than a dozen/ architectures. They build. | | Look eg at http://packages.qa.debian.org/r/r-cran-rms.html and click on build | log, or go to https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=r-cran-rms | | Funny how it builds on all of our machines witout intervention, eh? | | Dirk | | | | | Cheers, | | Peter | | | | _______________________________________________ | | R-SIG-Debian mailing list | | [email protected] | | https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian | | -- | "Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it is too | dark to read." -- Groucho Marx | | _______________________________________________ | R-SIG-Debian mailing list | [email protected] | https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian -- "Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it is too dark to read." -- Groucho Marx _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
