From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2007-07-17T10:37:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Installation problem with rsruby

Alex Gutteridge wrote:
> On 17 Jul 2007, at 06:29, Tim Hunter wrote:
> 
>> Axel Etzold wrote:
>>> How can I make a dynamic dependency between libRblas.so and rsruby.so ?
>>> I couldn't find any documentation on flags at the time of installation.
>>>
>> I don't know. Probably you're going to need to get in touch with the
>> rsruby developers.
> 
> Hi Axel,
> 
> I'm the developer of RSRuby, sorry to see you've been having trouble. I
> don't seem to have libRblas.so on my machine (Ubuntu), so I'm not sure
> what is causing the issue you're having. What version of R (and RSRuby)
> did you install? Feel free to email me off-list if you like - though I
> am away from work for the next week so replies may be slow.
> 
> Alex Gutteridge
> 
> Bioinformatics Center
> Kyoto University
> 
> 
> 
> 
I just installed it from the Gem repository on Gentoo Linux with no
problems, once I set R_HOME=/usr/lib/R. Gentoo builds all three of (in
/usr/lib/R/lib) libRblas.so, libRlapack.so and libR.so, and everything
worked. I don't remember what Ubuntu/Debian do, but quite a bit of CRAN
is in the Debian repositories thanks to Dirk Eddelbuettel.

I usually build R from source on everything but Gentoo (where it's built
from source by default) and Windows (where building R from source
requires a finicky and demanding tool set and patience I don't possess)
anyhow, so I know where everything is and can specify that everything I
need gets built.