R help - Nov 2003 - excluding libraries at configure

I'm trying build R-1.8.1 on a apple g4 that I've just upgraded
to panther.  Configure quits with complaints about  "linking
to Fortran libraries from C fails".  Based on some comparisons
with a fresh g5 install that worked...I conjecture that this
is due to the fact that /sw/lib on the g4 contains lots of stuff from
the prior jaguar installation, and ./configure wants to include
-L/sw/lib.

So my question is this:  is there way to tell configure politely
to not look in /sw/lib?  Or is there another suggestion entirely?

url:	www.econ.uiuc.edu/~roger/my.html	Roger Koenker
email	rkoenker at uiuc.edu			Department of Economics
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On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, Roger Koenker wrote:
> I'm trying build R-1.8.1 on a apple g4 that I've just upgraded
> to panther.  Configure quits with complaints about  "linking
> to Fortran libraries from C fails".  Based on some comparisons
> with a fresh g5 install that worked...I conjecture that this
> is due to the fact that /sw/lib on the g4 contains lots of stuff from
> the prior jaguar installation, and ./configure wants to include
> -L/sw/lib.
This doesn't answer your question but might solve your problem: this
symptom occurs for a number of people who have installed teTeX using the
i-installer distribution.  One of the optional packages is `wmf + iconv
support" which installs an incompatible version of libiconv in
/usr/local/lib.  Removing this works for us.

	-thomas