I had the same problem. The issue is not having g77, a gnu FORTRAN compiler, installed. g77 [..] -c hbin.f These files with *.f are fortran, I believe. There is an RPM for g77. That should fix the problem. David On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 21:01, Laurent Gautier wrote: > On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 05:10:23PM +0100, buhard Ceph wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > I encounter some problems while trying to install BioConductor packages under R for Linux (perhaps as a new Bioconductor user, and not a linux expert !). > > > > I've downloaded the tar.gz file sources of Bioconductor and successfully installed a part of the bundle... but installation stops at 'hexbin', with an error indicating '-lreadline' is nof found, as reported here : > > > > > > > > After R CMD INSTALL treated 'graph' package, I get the following messages : > > > > * Installing *source* package 'hexbin' ... > > ** libs > > g77 -mieee-fp -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mcpu=pentiumpro -march=i586 -fno-fast-math -fno-strength-reduce -O3 -fomit-frame- pointer -pipe -mcpu=pentiumpro -march=i586 -fno-fast-math -fno- strength-reduce -c hbin.f -o hbin.o > > g77 -mieee-fp -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mcpu=pentiumpro -march=i586 -fno-fast-math -fno-strength-reduce -O3 -fomit-frame- pointer -pipe -mcpu=pentiumpro -march=i586 -fno-fast-math -fno- strength-reduce -c hcell.f -o hcell.o > > g77 -mieee-fp -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mcpu=pentiumpro -march=i586 -fno-fast-math -fno-strength-reduce -O3 -fomit-frame- pointer -pipe -mcpu=pentiumpro -march=i586 -fno-fast-math -fno- strength-reduce -c herode.f -o herode.o > > g77 -mieee-fp -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mcpu=pentiumpro -march=i586 -fno-fast-math -fno-strength-reduce -O3 -fomit-frame- pointer -pipe -mcpu=pentiumpro -march=i586 -fno-fast-math -fno- strength-reduce -c hsm.f -o hsm.o > > g77 -mieee-fp -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mcpu=pentiumpro -march=i586 -fno-fast-math -fno-strength-reduce -O3 -fomit-frame- pointer -pipe -mcpu=pentiumpro -march=i586 -fno-fast-math -fno- strength-reduce -c htst.f -o htst.o > > gcc -shared -L/usr/local/lib -o hexbin.so hbin.o hcell.o herode.o hsm.o htst.o -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-mandrake-linux- gnu/3.2 -L/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-mandrake-linux-gnu/3.2/../../.. -lreadline -ldl -lncurses -lfrtbegin -lg2c -lm -lgcc_s -L/usr/lib/R/bin -lR > > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lreadline > > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > > make: *** [hexbin.so] Erreur 1 > > ERROR: compilation failed for package 'hexbin' > > [root@localhost root]# > > > > > > > > None of all subsequent packages is installed then. > > As far as I remember, few packages (if any) depend on hexbin. You should > be able to install the others one by one. > > The install script available is an option you should consider too.. > > > > > Maybe there's something missing on my OS (mdk 9, kernel 2.4.19-24) ? Or a library with a bad (or missing) path declaration ? what else ? > > If you did a vanilla install of Mandrake, I think you still need to install > the rpm 'readline-devel'. > > > Hopin' it helps, > > > > > Laurent > > > > > > > > > Any help greatly appreciated > > > > thanks in advance. > > > > > > > > BUHARD Olivier > > INSERM U434/CEPH > > 27 rue Juliette DODU > > 75010 PARIS > > > > > > [[alternate HTML version deleted]] > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Bioconductor mailing list > > Bioconductor@stat.math.ethz.ch > > https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioconductor > > -- > -------------------------------------------------------------- > currently at the National Yang-Ming University in Taipei, Taiwan > -------------------------------------------------------------- > Laurent Gautier CBS, Building 208, DTU > PhD. Student DK-2800 Lyngby,Denmark > tel: +45 45 25 24 89 http://www.cbs.dtu.dk/laurent > > _______________________________________________ > Bioconductor mailing list > Bioconductor@stat.math.ethz.ch > https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioconductor