On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, loren mccarter wrote:
> I've used R for a couple of years on FreeBSD with few problems.
Recently,
> a couple of the contributed packages seem to have difficulty finding
> symbols in the shared libraries. Currently, I'm running R 1.3.1 on
FreeBSD
> 4.4. I've tried setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH to /usr/local/lib
> and some other things. The packages I've had trouble with are:
>
> Matrix 0.3.15
> RODBC 0.8.3
> RSPython 0.3
>
> Matrix could not find my BLAS library:
>
> checking for dgemm_ in -lcomplib.sgimath... no
> checking for zherk in -lblas... no
> checking for dgemm_ in -lblas... no
> could not find your BLAS library
> ERROR: Configuration failed for package `Matrix'
>
> I solved the problem with Matrix by adding -L/usr/local/lib to the
'FLIBS'
> variable in $RHOME/etc/Makeconf. Then, it found the library and installed
> just fine.
> RODBC gives me the following error:
>
> Installing source package `RODBC' ...
> creating cache ./config.cache
> checking for library containing SQLTables... no
> configure: error: no ODBC driver manager found
> ERROR: Configuration failed for package `RODBC'
>
> I have unixODBC and libiodbc installed in /usr/local/lib and "nm
> -g" returns the symbol SQLTables in libiodbc.so, libodbc.so,
> libodbcpsql.so, libpsqlodbc.so. -L/usr/local/lib is in the FLIBS
> statement so that is not the problem.
I think it is. FLIBS refers to Fortran, and this is looking for C
libraries. (Also, the configure script for RODBC is not looking for
FLIBS in $RHOME/etc/Makeconf.) I think you need to set LIBS to
(not FLIBS) to -L/usr/local/lib -R/usr/local/lib (or whatever the
FreeBSD equivalent is) before running these configure scripts.
That said, on all my platforms having LD_LIBRARY_PATH set correctly works.
>
> RSPython installs fine, but when I load the library in R
> 'library(RSPython' it returns the following:
>
> Error in dyn.load(x, as.logical(local), as.logical(now)) :
> unable to load shared library
> "/usr/local/lib/R/library/RSPython/libs/RSPython.so":
> /usr/local/lib/R/library/RSPython/libs/RSPython.so: Undefined symbol
> "pthread_create"
> Error in library(RSPython) : .First.lib failed
do ldd on RSPython.so: I suspect -lpthreads is needed (plus an appropriate
path).
>
>
> Am I correct in thinking that these three issues result from a
> common problem with R and shared libraries on FreeBSD? Can
Well, FreeBSD is not a common platform for R but I recall no other
reports.
> you think of something that I am doing incorrectly upon installation
> or R or the packages that could cause these problems. In case it is
> relevant, FreeBSD uses an older version of libtool as compared to the one
> that comes with R. Here is the version information:
>
> FreeBSD libtool:
> ltmain.sh (GNU libtool) 1.3.4-freebsd-ports (1.385.2.196 1999/12/07
> 21:47:57)
>
> R libtool:
> ltmain.sh (GNU libtool) 1.3e (1.890 2001/04/06 23:48:27)
>
>
> Thanks for any help you can provide!
>
> Loren
>
>
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