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Fedora 17 and libnpsol

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No user picture. phurd Joined: 10/19/2012
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Hi, I'm trying to install on a Fedora 17 system, it fails with:

checking for inst/npsol/linux/x86/gcc4.7/libnpsol.a... no
configure: error: npsol library not found

I've installed successfully on ubuntu 12.04 (which has gcc v 4.6).

Is would it work to copy over the library, or does this really need to be recompiled?

Replied on Sun, 10/21/2012 - 10:35
Picture of user. mspiegel Joined: 07/31/2009

Yeah, go ahead and check out a copy of OpenMx from our subversion repository. Then create a new directory /trunk/inst/npsol/linux/x86/gcc4.7 and copy the contents of /trunk/inst/npsol/linux/x86/gcc4.6 into that repository. Then run "make install" from the /trunk directory (you don't need to sudo this command). You can test the library by running "make test".
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Replied on Mon, 10/22/2012 - 11:42
Picture of user. mspiegel Joined: 07/31/2009

It's possible to avoid the "sudo" requirement with a workaround. Launch the R interpreter (without sudo) and then use install.packages(). Select a package that you might find useful in the future, maybe the "snowfall" package or the "psych" package. The install process should detect the absence of a user library directory, and then ask if you want it to create a directory. Selecting "yes" will eliminate the need for "sudo make install" when building OpenMx. I consider this a bug in the "R CMD INSTALL" script, the R developers probably consider it a feature.
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