This likely caused by an excessively conservative sanity check in setup.py, which triggers an exception when R is compiled to use a system-wide BLAS library.
That should be fixed in rev. 636 in SVN. Laurent On Mon, 2008-08-18 at 20:46 -0400, M. M. wrote: > Dear all: > > trying to install rpy2 on my research computers. able to do so on 2 > of 3, one of which is 64 bit. On the P4 2.8 machine with ubuntu hardy > installed, just like the others, I get the following error when > installing from the most current (v.635) svn files: > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "./setup.py", line 142, in <module> > ri_ext = getRinterface_ext(RHOME, r_packversion) > File "./setup.py", line 128, in getRinterface_ext > get_rconfig(RHOME, 'BLAS_LIBS'), > File "./setup.py", line 66, in get_rconfig > raise Exception(cmd + '\nreturned\n' + rconfig) > Exception: "/usr/lib/R/bin/R" CMD config BLAS_LIBS > returned > -lblas > > The other computers have similar software setups with ubuntu. I am > at a loss on what to do next as not much can be found on this > particular problem on the net. Thanks in advance. - Gabe > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _______________________________________________ rpy-list mailing list > rpy-list@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rpy-list ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ rpy-list mailing list rpy-list@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rpy-list
