cannot find -lg2c

[Jason Crain]

On Wed, April 29, 2009 12:45 am, Hersh Parikh wrote:
>       I m trying to use one software EIGNSOFT 3.0 for data analysis. When
> I am trying to install the software I am getting following error.
>
> solid at ubuntu:~/t/src$ make all
> mkdir -p /home/solid/t/src/smartlib
> mkdir -p /home/solid/t/src/smarttables
> mkdir -p /home/solid/t/src/smartinclude
> mkdir -p /home/solid/t/src/../bin
> cp *.h /home/solid/t/src/smartinclude
> cp eigensrc/*.h /home/solid/t/src/smartinclude
> cp nicksrc/*.h /home/solid/t/src/smartinclude
> ar -r libnick.a strsubs.o sortit.o vsubs.o statsubs.o linsubs.o getpars.o
> xsearch.o gauss.o gds.o
> cp libnick.a /home/solid/t/src/smartlib/nicklib.a
> gcc -I/home/solid/t/src/smartinclude -pthread -o smartpca smartpca.o
> twsubs.o mcio.o qpsubs.o admutils.o egsubs.o regsubs.o eigsubs.o eigx.o
> /home/solid/t/src/smartlib/nicklib.a -L/usr/lib -lg2c -lm -llapack -latlas
> -lblas -Wimplicit
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lg2c
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make: *** [smartpca] Error 1
> solid at ubuntu:~/t/src$
>
> Can anyone tell me how can I fix this error? and lg2c is required for what
> purpose?

Do you have libg2c0 installed?