R help - Mar 2004 - Failure to compile source packages in Debian

As of quite recently I experience failures to compile source packages. 
Messages like

  * Installing *source* package 'dse1' ...
** libs
g77 -mieee-fp  -fPIC  -g -O2 -c dsefor.f -o dsefor.o
gcc -shared  -o dse1.so dsefor.o  -L/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/3.3.3 
-L/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/3.3.3/../../..
-lfrtbegin -lg2c-pic -lm -lgcc_s -L/usr/lib/R/bin -lR
/usr/bin/ld: no se puede encontrar -lg2c-pic

clearly point to the non-existence of library g2c-pic. Problem is I 
cannot locate  the .deb package
containing such library. Could some Debian user point me to the right 
location? (I am using
Debian "testing"  on a Pentium box and R ver. 1.8.1 installed from the
.deb package.)

Thank you.

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"F. Tusell" <etptupaf at bs.ehu.es> wrote on 31/03/2004
10:06:32:

[...]
>
> and yet libgc2-pic is not resolved. *HOWEVER* following your lead that
> whatever is needed must by in a library of name libg2c*, I did the
> following in /usr/lib:
>
>    ln -s libg2c0.so.0 libg2c-pic.so
>
> and everything works like a charm. Seems it si just a library that
> changed its name.
Hmm.. Doing a search on

http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages#search_contents

using options Keyword g2c-pic
            packages that contain files or directories, whose
                  names contain the keyword
            testing
            Intel x86

points to g77 packages.

Probably installing this one is a better solution ?

HTH,
Tobias

On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 09:15:24AM +0200, F. Tusell
wrote:
> 
> As of quite recently I experience failures to compile source packages. 
> Messages like
> 
>  * Installing *source* package 'dse1' ...
> ** libs
> g77 -mieee-fp  -fPIC  -g -O2 -c dsefor.f -o dsefor.o
> gcc -shared  -o dse1.so dsefor.o  -L/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/3.3.3 
> -L/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/3.3.3/../../..
> -lfrtbegin -lg2c-pic -lm -lgcc_s -L/usr/lib/R/bin -lR
> /usr/bin/ld: no se puede encontrar -lg2c-pic
> 
> clearly point to the non-existence of library g2c-pic. Problem is I 
> cannot locate  the .deb package
> containing such library. Could some Debian user point me to the right 
> location? (I am using
> Debian "testing"  on a Pentium box and R ver. 1.8.1 installed
from the
> .deb package.)
The g77 packages used to provide a g2c-pic library. E.g. when 1.8.1 was
built, they did and thusly the Depends ended up in /etc/R/Makeconf. However,
on your current system, g77 no longer provides the library -- so this fails.

You need to bring R and g77 back in sync. There are several possibilities:

a) install the current r-base-core and r-base-dev packages from unstable
b) recompile the 1.8.1 package locally to reflect to reflect your current
   compiler setup
c) edit /etc/R/Makeconf  

I'm sorry for the bug, but these things are hard to control for.

Dirk


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