Thanks Dirk! Could you please elaborate on what you mean by *building* against these libraries?-- The compilation step went through without any problems; only the linking step failed.
Also, it seems that I didn't need to add anything to my system that I didn't already have---creating an un-versioned symbolic link to existing files did the trick. -Lutz On 11/04/2015 11:27 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > On 4 November 2015 at 22:20, jsmith5...@yahoo.com wrote: > | Hi all, > | > | I hope that this mailing list is an appropriate outlet for my comment: > | > | When I tried to install RcppEigen, I got the following error message > | during the linking step: > | > | g++ -shared -L/usr/lib64/R/lib -L/usr/local/lib64 -o RcppEigen.so > | RcppEigen.o RcppExports.o fastLm.o -L/usr/lib64/R/lib -lRlapack > | -L/usr/lib64/R/lib -lRblas -lgfortran -lm -lquadmath -L/usr/lib64/R/lib -lR > | /usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-suse-linux/5/../../../../x86_64-suse-linux/bin/ld: > | cannot find -lgfortran > | /usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-suse-linux/5/../../../../x86_64-suse-linux/bin/ld: > | cannot find -lquadmath > | > | This problem appeared with R 3.2.2 on an openSuse tumbleweed machine > | using g++ 5.2.1, and I verified that both libgfortran and libquadmath > | were installed in /usr/lib64. > > You need the equivalent of libgfortran-dev to _build_ against Fortran and not > just _run_ against it. > > | I noticed that my /usr/lib64 contained the files libgfortran.so.3 and > | libquadmath.so.0, but not copies (or links) without a version number. I > > The -dev versions give you that. > > Dirk > > | could solve the installation problem by creating version-free links > | libgfortran.so and libquadmath.so in /usr/lib64 that pointed to the > | libgfortran.so.3 and libquadmath.so.0 files, respectively. > | > | I would appreciate if anyone could check if they have the same problem, > | and if this configuration is not exclusive to my computer. > | > | Thanks, > | Lutz > | _______________________________________________ > | Rcpp-devel mailing list > | Rcpp-devel@lists.r-forge.r-project.org > | https://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rcpp-devel > _______________________________________________ Rcpp-devel mailing list Rcpp-devel@lists.r-forge.r-project.org https://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rcpp-devel