compile under Ubuntu 8.10 (Ibex)

?I fired up a new machine last night and loaded Ubuntu 8.10 on it. ?I then had
to add in the usual compiler stuff which is not loaded by default: make, emacs,
fortran, c++, etc.

?I'm having trouble compiling R 2.8 however. ?I get a message that it cannot
figure out how to link f77 and C. ?I've pulled in "gfortran". ?A google search
on "fortran ubuntu 8.10" shows various problems with the gcc switch from
fortran77 to fortran95 --- also true for R?

?Any hints are welcome, including "don't use 8.10" (thought that will be an
evening of work).

Read http://cran.us.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu to learn how to add
the CRAN repository to your package search path then install the
r-base and r-base-dev packages.

If you want all the development packages to allow you to compile and
install development versions of R then run

sudo apt-get build-dep r-base

and all the required packages will be magically added.  If you want to
see exactly how Dirk has set up the compilation of R under Debian then
install the wajig package, run

cd /tmp
wajig build r-base

and sit back and enjoy.  Finally note that the mailing list
R-SIG-Debian is more suitable for questions related to Debian and
Debian-derived distributions like Ubuntu.