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Installing RCurl -

7 messages · Joshua Ulrich, Søren Højsgaard, Hadley Wickham +1 more

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What does config.log say is the problem?
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On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 1:32 PM, S?ren H?jsgaard <sorenh at math.aau.dk> wrote:
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I should probably have said that I am a newbie on linux - sorry. Where can I find config.log?
S?ren

-----Original Message-----
From: Joshua Ulrich [mailto:josh.m.ulrich at gmail.com] 
Sent: 2. januar 2014 20:34
To: S?ren H?jsgaard
Cc: r-sig-debian at r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R-sig-Debian] Installing RCurl -

What does config.log say is the problem?
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On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 1:32 PM, S?ren H?jsgaard <sorenh at math.aau.dk> wrote:
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This line seems suspicious:

checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error:
C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.

Have you installed the R development package?

Hadley
On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 1:32 PM, S?ren H?jsgaard <sorenh at math.aau.dk> wrote:

  
    
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On 2 January 2014 at 13:41, Hadley Wickham wrote:
| This line seems suspicious:
| 
| checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error:
| C compiler cannot create executables
| See `config.log' for more details.
| 
| Have you installed the R development package?

+1

S?ren, when we say "install libcurl4-*-dev" we mean this as shorthand saying
"besides the build environment you should already have".  So please also do

         sudo apt-get install r-base-dev

and then try again.  Share all relevant logs with us.

Dirk
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It was done already without problems, and I can build all my packages. I am not sure where to find config.log though.
S?ren
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Fra: Dirk Eddelbuettel [edd at debian.org]
Sendt: 2. januar 2014 20:51
Til: Hadley Wickham
Cc: S?ren H?jsgaard; r-sig-debian at r-project.org
Emne: Re: [R-sig-Debian] Installing RCurl -
On 2 January 2014 at 13:41, Hadley Wickham wrote:
| This line seems suspicious:
|
| checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error:
| C compiler cannot create executables
| See `config.log' for more details.
|
| Have you installed the R development package?

+1

S?ren, when we say "install libcurl4-*-dev" we mean this as shorthand saying
"besides the build environment you should already have".  So please also do

         sudo apt-get install r-base-dev

and then try again.  Share all relevant logs with us.

Dirk

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On 2 January 2014 at 20:07, S?ren H?jsgaard wrote:
| It was done already without problems, and I can build all my packages. I am not sure where to find config.log though.

cd /tmp/
tar xfz RCurl*tar.gz
cd RCurl
./configure

There is your log.  When you do it via R CMD INSTALL ..., R cleans up after itself.

Dirk

| S?ren
| ________________________________________
| Fra: Dirk Eddelbuettel [edd at debian.org]
| Sendt: 2. januar 2014 20:51
| Til: Hadley Wickham
| Cc: S?ren H?jsgaard; r-sig-debian at r-project.org
| Emne: Re: [R-sig-Debian] Installing RCurl -
|
| On 2 January 2014 at 13:41, Hadley Wickham wrote:
| | This line seems suspicious:
| |
| | checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error:
| | C compiler cannot create executables
| | See `config.log' for more details.
| |
| | Have you installed the R development package?
| 
| +1
| 
| S?ren, when we say "install libcurl4-*-dev" we mean this as shorthand saying
| "besides the build environment you should already have".  So please also do
| 
|          sudo apt-get install r-base-dev
| 
| and then try again.  Share all relevant logs with us.
| 
| Dirk
| 
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| Dirk Eddelbuettel | edd at debian.org | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com