Hi guys, I had looked for help on the debian gis list, but given this thread and others (https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-debian/2011-April/001590.html ), maybe someone here could assist. I’m looking a bit of guidance trying to install rgdal on a beowulf cluster where i don't have root access. I was able to successfully download the gdal binaries and compile it to my home directory.I successfully showed the rgdal package where my gdal configure file was, and got over that hurtle. However now I’m still getting an error searching for the libgdal.la. It reads: checking gdal: linking with --libs only... no checking gdal: linking with --libs and --dep-libs... no /nfs/user08/bw4sz/Gdal/gdal-1.9.0/libgdal.la: file not recognized: File format not recognized collect2: ld returned 1 exit status /nfs/user08/bw4sz/Gdal/gdal-1.9.0/libgdal.la: file not recognized: File format not recognized collect2: ld returned 1 exit status configure: Install failure: compilation and/or linkage problems. configure: error: GDALAllRegister not found in libgdal. Did I download the wrong source, as suggested by others? The file libgdal.la is there, just where it it supposed to be. My best guess is that i have a non-debian version? Or that i need another flag when i ./ configure. Where should i specifically go to get the correct libgdal.la? Any input is greatly appreciated. Best, Ben Weinstein Full readout below. install.packages("rgdal",configure.args=c("--with-gdal-config=/nfs/user08/bw4sz/Gdal/gdal-1.9.0/apps/gdal-config"),.libPaths()[1]) trying URL 'http://cran.cnr.Berkeley.edu/src/contrib/rgdal_0.7-18.tar.gz<http://cran.cnr.berkeley.edu/src/contrib/rgdal_0.7-18.tar.gz> ' Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 1433864 bytes (1.4 Mb) opened URL ================================================= downloaded 1.4 Mb * installing *source* package ârgdalâ ... ** package ârgdalâ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked configure: gdal-config: /nfs/user08/bw4sz/Gdal/gdal-1.9.0/apps/gdal-config checking gdal-config usability... yes configure: GDAL: 1.9.0 checking GDAL version > 1.5.4... yes checking for gcc... gcc -std=gnu99 checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking for suffix of executables... checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc -std=gnu99 accepts -g... yes checking for gcc -std=gnu99 option to accept ISO C89... none needed checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -std=gnu99 -E checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E checking for ANSI C header files... yes checking for sys/types.h... yes checking for sys/stat.h... yes checking for stdlib.h... yes checking for string.h... yes checking for memory.h... yes checking for strings.h... yes checking for inttypes.h... yes checking for stdint.h... yes checking for unistd.h... yes checking gdal.h usability... yes checking gdal.h presence... yes checking for gdal.h... yes checking gdal: linking with --libs only... no checking gdal: linking with --libs and --dep-libs... no /nfs/user08/bw4sz/Gdal/gdal-1.9.0/libgdal.la: file not recognized: File format not recognized collect2: ld returned 1 exit status /nfs/user08/bw4sz/Gdal/gdal-1.9.0/libgdal.la: file not recognized: File format not recognized collect2: ld returned 1 exit status configure: Install failure: compilation and/or linkage problems. configure: error: GDALAllRegister not found in libgdal. ERROR: configuration failed for package ârgdalâ * removing â/nfs/user08/bw4sz/library/rgdalâ The downloaded packages are in â/tmp/RtmpOE6lPB/downloaded_packagesâ Updating HTML index of packages in '.Library' Making packages.html ... done Warning message: In install.packages("rgdal", configure.args c("--with-gdal-config=/nfs/user08/bw4sz/Gdal/gdal-1.9.0/apps/gdal-config"), : installation of package ârgdalâ had non-zero exit status -- Ben Weinstein Graduate Student Ecology and Evolution Stony Brook University http://life.bio.sunysb.edu/~bweinste/index.html [[alternative HTML version deleted]]