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OS: Linux (kernel 4.10.0 / distro: Ubuntu 17.10) GCC version: 7.0.0 20161202 experimental (built from source) error message for gsl: checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu checking for gcc... gcc checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking for suffix of executables... checking whether we are cross compiling... configure: error: in `/home/uruwi/sage-7.6/local/var/tmp/sage/build/gsl-2.1.p1/src': configure: error: cannot run C compiled programs. If you meant to cross compile, use `--host'. See `config.log' for more details Error configuring GSL. real 0m0.460s user 0m0.204s sys 0m0.056s for R: checking size of int... 4 checking size of long... 8 checking size of long long... 8 checking size of double... 8 checking size of size_t... 8 checking size of long double... 16 checking whether we can compute C Make dependencies... yes, using $(CC) -MM checking whether gcc supports -c -o FILE.lo... yes checking for gcc option to support OpenMP... -fopenmp checking how to get verbose linking output from gfortran... -### checking for Fortran 77 libraries of gfortran... -L/home/uruwi/sage-7.6/ local/lib -L/home/uruwi/sage-7.6/local/lib/../lib64 -L/usr/local/lib/gcc/ x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/7.0.0 -L/usr/local/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/7.0.0 /../../../x86_64-linux-gnu -L/usr/local/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/7.0.0 /../../../../lib64 -L/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu -L/lib/../lib64 -L/usr/lib/x86_64 -linux-gnu -L/usr/lib/../lib64 -L/usr/local/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/7.0. 0/../../.. -lgfortran -lm -lquadmath checking how to get verbose linking output from gcc... -### checking for C libraries of gcc... -L/home/uruwi/sage-7.6/local/lib -L/home /uruwi/sage-7.6/local/lib/../lib64 -L/usr/local/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/ 7.0.0 -L/usr/local/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/7.0.0/../../../x86_64-linux-gnu -L/usr/local/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/7.0.0/../../../../lib64 -L/lib/ x86_64-linux-gnu -L/lib/../lib64 -L/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu -L/usr/lib/../lib64 -L/usr/local/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/7.0.0/../../.. -lgcc_s checking for dummy main to link with Fortran 77 libraries... none checking for Fortran 77 name-mangling scheme... lower case, underscore, no extra underscore checking whether gfortran appends underscores to external names... yes checking whether gfortran appends extra underscores to external names... no checking whether mixed C/Fortran code can be run... configure: WARNING: cannot run mixed C/Fortran code configure: error: Maybe check LDFLAGS for paths to Fortran libraries? Error configuring R. real 0m33.667s user 0m13.640s sys 0m2.900s -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-support. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.