[Rcpp-devel] Unable to install RcppArmadillo from CRAN or from SVN archive on Ubuntu 10.10

[Douglas Bates]

I have been facing this problem for months now and I still don't know
why other users of Ubuntu 10.10 using

$ g++ --version
g++ (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.4.4-14ubuntu5) 4.4.5
Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

can install RcppArmadillo and I can't.  Most recently I tried to
install the source package from CRAN and got the same error as I have
been getting for months.


> install.packages("RcppArmadillo", repos="http://cran.fhcrc.org")
Installing package(s) into ‘/home/bates/R/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-library/2.13’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
trying URL 'http://cran.fhcrc.org/src/contrib/RcppArmadillo_0.2.19.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 259638 bytes (253 Kb)
opened URL
==================================================
downloaded 253 Kb

* installing *source* package ‘RcppArmadillo’ ...
** libs
ccache g++ -I/usr/share/R/include
-I"/home/bates/R/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-library/2.13/Rcpp/include"
-I../inst/include -fpic  -g -Wall -pipe -pedantic -c RcppArmadillo.cpp
-o RcppArmadillo.o
ccache g++ -I/usr/share/R/include
-I"/home/bates/R/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-library/2.13/Rcpp/include"
-I../inst/include -fpic  -g -Wall -pipe -pedantic -c fastLm.cpp -o
fastLm.o
g++ -shared -o RcppArmadillo.so RcppArmadillo.o fastLm.o
-L/home/bates/R/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-library/2.13/Rcpp/lib -lRcpp
-Wl,-rpath,/home/bates/R/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-library/2.13/Rcpp/lib
-llapack -lblas -lgfortran -lm -L/usr/lib64/R/lib -lR
installing to /home/bates/R/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-library/2.13/RcppArmadillo/libs
** R
** inst
** preparing package for lazy loading
** help
*** installing help indices
** building package indices ...
** testing if installed package can be loaded
Error in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...) :
  unable to load shared object
'/home/bates/R/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-library/2.13/RcppArmadillo/libs/RcppArmadillo.so':
  /home/bates/R/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-library/2.13/RcppArmadillo/libs/RcppArmadillo.so:
undefined symbol: _ZN4arma12arma_version5majorE
Error: loading failed
Execution halted
ERROR: loading failed
* removing ‘/home/bates/R/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-library/2.13/RcppArmadillo’
* restoring previous
‘/home/bates/R/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-library/2.13/RcppArmadillo’

The downloaded packages are in
	‘/tmp/RtmpoJ3I0u/downloaded_packages’
Warning message:
In install.packages("RcppArmadillo", repos = "http://cran.fhcrc.org") :
  installation of package 'RcppArmadillo' had non-zero exit status
> sessionInfo()
R version 2.13.0 (2011-04-13)
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)

locale:
 [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
 [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
 [5] LC_MONETARY=C              LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
 [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C
 [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C
[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] tools_2.13.0


The version of the source file RcppArmadillo/src/RcppArmadillo.cpp
that I have (SVN version 3012 for the file - the source code package
is at SVN version 3023) does indeed use arma::version::major,
arma::version:minor and arma::version::patch but they aren't defined
any place that I can see.

What am I missing here?