R help - Jan 2008 - R configuration is not finding the installed f2c cross-compiler

Last Friday my computer  monitor was messed up by on-line patches update.
I had to reinstall everything from the o.s. and all applications on top of
it.

I have downloaded R source from the official site.
I have uncompressed the archive and ran the configure as root in
/usr/local/bin.
The configuration procedure dies writing:

*configure: error: Neither an F77 compiler nor f2c found
*
but actually f2c is installed:

linux-Ciccia:/usr/local/bin/R-2.6.1 # which f2c
/usr/bin/f2c

I am running Linux/SuSE 10.3
Does anyone know how to get around this problem ?

Thank you so much.
---
Maura E.M

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It is unlikely that f2c will work on a 64-bit platform.  So you will have 
to specify it manually (via the script src/scripts/f77_f2c perhaps?).

You would be much better off installing your OS's Fortran compiler.

On Mon, 21 Jan 2008, Maura E Monville wrote:
> Last Friday my computer  monitor was messed up by on-line patches update.
> I had to reinstall everything from the o.s. and all applications on top of
> it.
>
> I have downloaded R source from the official site.
> I have uncompressed the archive and ran the configure as root in
> /usr/local/bin.
> The configuration procedure dies writing:
>
> *configure: error: Neither an F77 compiler nor f2c found
> *
> but actually f2c is installed:
>
> linux-Ciccia:/usr/local/bin/R-2.6.1 # which f2c
> /usr/bin/f2c
>
> I am running Linux/SuSE 10.3
> Does anyone know how to get around this problem ?
>
> Thank you so much.
> ---
> Maura E.M
>
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