[Rcpp-devel] Installing RcppArmadillo under Ubuntu 10.10

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 8 February 2011 at 14:39, Douglas Bates wrote:
| On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:
| 
| > On 8 February 2011 at 13:42, Douglas Bates wrote:
| > | I'm back to "it's not your night, kid".  I seem to be unable to
| > | install the RcppArmadillo package under Ubuntu 10.10 with R-2.12.1
| > | installed from the packages on CRAN.  The compilation goes fine but
| > | the package can't be loaded because the symbol
| > | arma::arma_version::major is undefined.  It should have been defined
| > | as a static unsigned int in
| > | RcppArmadillo/inst/include/armadillo_bits/arma_version.hpp and is
| > | indeed used in RcppArmadillo/src/RcppArmadillo.cpp.  The output from
| > | the attempted installation is enclosed.
| 
| > What does ldd say when you point at .so file that fails to load?  Do you
| > maybe have an old .deb package for Armadillo hanging around?
| 
| The ldd output is
| 	linux-vdso.so.1 =>  (0x00007fffcddff000)
| 	libRcpp.so => /home/bates/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.12/Rcpp/lib/libRcpp.so
| (0x00007fea656ee000)
| 	liblapack.so.3gf => /usr/lib/liblapack.so.3gf (0x00007fea64ab8000)
| 	libblas.so.3gf => /usr/lib/libblas.so.3gf (0x00007fea64573000)
| 	libgfortran.so.3 => /usr/lib/libgfortran.so.3 (0x00007fea6428f000)
| 	libR.so => /usr/lib/libR.so (0x00007fea63d30000)
| 	libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007fea63a29000)
| 	libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x00007fea637a6000)
| 	libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007fea63590000)
| 	libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00007fea6320c000)
| 	libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007fea62fef000)
| 	libreadline.so.6 => /lib/libreadline.so.6 (0x00007fea62dae000)
| 	libpcre.so.3 => /lib/libpcre.so.3 (0x00007fea62b7c000)
| 	liblzma.so.2 => /usr/lib/liblzma.so.2 (0x00007fea6295a000)
| 	libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007fea62749000)
| 	libz.so.1 => /lib/libz.so.1 (0x00007fea62530000)
| 	libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00007fea6232c000)
| 	/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007fea65b96000)
| 	libncurses.so.5 => /lib/libncurses.so.5 (0x00007fea620e8000)
| 
| but armadillo shouldn't show up in ldd because it is only headers,

Correct, brain fart on my part.

| right?  The output of nm -g applied to that shared object does list
| the major, minor and patch members of the arma_version struct but has
| them as undefined
| 
|                  U _ZN4arma12arma_version5majorE
|                  U _ZN4arma12arma_version5minorE
|                  U _ZN4arma12arma_version5patchE
| 
| I checked and I don't have any of the Ubuntu packages associated with
| armadillo installed.
| 
| I really don't know what is going on.

I don't have them! 

edd at max:~$ nm /usr/local/lib/R/site-library/RcppArmadillo/libs/RcppArmadillo.so | wc -l
218
edd at max:~$ nm /usr/local/lib/R/site-library/RcppArmadillo/libs/RcppArmadillo.so | grep version
0000000000004ba0 T armadillo_version
edd at max:~$ 

Could you have an old file hanging around or something?

Dirk

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