On 2 January 2014 at 20:07, Søren Højsgaard wrote: | It was done already without problems, and I can build all my packages. I am not sure where to find config.log though.
cd /tmp/ tar xfz RCurl*tar.gz cd RCurl ./configure There is your log. When you do it via R CMD INSTALL ..., R cleans up after itself. Dirk | Søren | ________________________________________ | Fra: Dirk Eddelbuettel [[email protected]] | Sendt: 2. januar 2014 20:51 | Til: Hadley Wickham | Cc: Søren Højsgaard; [email protected] | Emne: Re: [R-sig-Debian] Installing RCurl - | | On 2 January 2014 at 13:41, Hadley Wickham wrote: | | This line seems suspicious: | | | | checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: | | C compiler cannot create executables | | See `config.log' for more details. | | | | Have you installed the R development package? | | +1 | | Søren, when we say "install libcurl4-*-dev" we mean this as shorthand saying | "besides the build environment you should already have". So please also do | | sudo apt-get install r-base-dev | | and then try again. Share all relevant logs with us. | | Dirk | | -- | Dirk Eddelbuettel | [email protected] | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com -- Dirk Eddelbuettel | [email protected] | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian

