title: Can't find gfortran 4.8 to build package
body: <p>I'm trying to install the <code>deldir</code> package in R via <code>install.packages("deldir",type = 'source')</code> but am getting the following error message (this is OSX Mavericks):</p>
  
  <pre><code>* installing *source* package ‘deldir’ ...
  ** package ‘deldir’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
  ** libs
  gfortran-4.8   -fPIC  -g -O2  -c acchk.f -o acchk.o
  make: gfortran-4.8: No such file or directory
  make: *** [acchk.o] Error 1
  ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘deldir’
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>gfortran 4.8 does seem to be available on my system, however:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&gt; gfortran -v
  Using built-in specs.
  COLLECT_GCC=gfortran
  COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/local/gfortran/libexec/gcc/x86_64-apple-darwin13/4.8.2/lto-wrapper
  Target: x86_64-apple-darwin13
  Configured with: ../gcc-4.8.2/configure --prefix=/usr/local/gfortran --with-gmp=/Users/fx/devel/gcc/deps-static/x86_64 --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --build=x86_64-apple-darwin13
  Thread model: posix
  gcc version 4.8.2 (GCC) 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>After symlinking gfortran-4.8 to gfortran I get a bit further but fail nonetheless:</p>
  
  <pre><code>* installing *source* package ‘deldir’ ...
  ** package ‘deldir’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
  ** libs
  gfortran-4.8   -fPIC  -g -O2  -c acchk.f -o acchk.o
  gfortran-4.8   -fPIC  -g -O2  -c addpt.f -o addpt.o
  gfortran-4.8   -fPIC  -g -O2  -c adjchk.f -o adjchk.o
  gfortran-4.8   -fPIC  -g -O2  -c binsrt.f -o binsrt.o
  gfortran-4.8   -fPIC  -g -O2  -c circen.f -o circen.o
  gfortran-4.8   -fPIC  -g -O2  -c cross.f -o cross.o
  gfortran-4.8   -fPIC  -g -O2  -c delet.f -o delet.o
  gfortran-4.8   -fPIC  -g -O2  -c delet1.f -o delet1.o
  gfortran-4.8   -fPIC  -g -O2  -c delout.f -o delout.o
  gfortran-4.8   -fPIC  -g -O2  -c delseg.f -o delseg.o
  gfortran-4.8   -fPIC  -g -O2  -c dirout.f -o dirout.o
  gfortran-4.8   -fPIC  -g -O2  -c dirseg.f -o dirseg.o
  gfortran-4.8   -fPIC  -g -O2  -c dldins.f -o dldins.o
  gfortran-4.8   -fPIC  -g -O2  -c initad.f -o initad.o
  gfortran-4.8   -fPIC  -g -O2  -c insrt.f -o insrt.o
  gfortran-4.8   -fPIC  -g -O2  -c insrt1.f -o insrt1.o
  gfortran-4.8   -fPIC  -g -O2  -c intri.f -o intri.o
  gfortran-4.8   -fPIC  -g -O2  -c locn.f -o locn.o
  gfortran-4.8   -fPIC  -g -O2  -c master.f -o master.o
  gfortran-4.8   -fPIC  -g -O2  -c mnnd.f -o mnnd.o
  gfortran-4.8   -fPIC  -g -O2  -c pred.f -o pred.o
  gfortran-4.8   -fPIC  -g -O2  -c qtest.f -o qtest.o
  gfortran-4.8   -fPIC  -g -O2  -c qtest1.f -o qtest1.o
  gfortran-4.8   -fPIC  -g -O2  -c stoke.f -o stoke.o
  gfortran-4.8   -fPIC  -g -O2  -c succ.f -o succ.o
  gfortran-4.8   -fPIC  -g -O2  -c swap.f -o swap.o
  gfortran-4.8   -fPIC  -g -O2  -c testeq.f -o testeq.o
  gfortran-4.8   -fPIC  -g -O2  -c triar.f -o triar.o
  gfortran-4.8   -fPIC  -g -O2  -c trifnd.f -o trifnd.o
  clang -dynamiclib -Wl,-headerpad_max_install_names -undefined dynamic_lookup -single_module -multiply_defined     suppress -L/usr/local/lib -o deldir.so acchk.o addpt.o adjchk.o binsrt.o circen.o cross.o delet.o delet1.o delout    .o delseg.o dirout.o dirseg.o dldins.o initad.o insrt.o insrt1.o intri.o locn.o master.o mnnd.o pred.o qtest.o     qtest1.o stoke.o succ.o swap.o testeq.o triar.o trifnd.o -L/usr/local/lib/gcc/x86_64-apple-darwin13.0.0/4.8.2 -    lgfortran -lquadmath -lm -F/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/.. -framework R -Wl,-framework -Wl,CoreFoundation
  ld: warning: directory not found for option '-L/usr/local/lib/gcc/x86_64-apple-darwin13.0.0/4.8.2'
  ld: library not found for -lgfortran
  clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)
  make: *** [deldir.so] Error 1
  ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘deldir’
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Note that <code>/usr/local/lib/gcc/x86_64-apple-darwin13.0.0/4.8.3</code> exists, <code>/usr/local/lib/gcc/x86_64-apple-darwin13.0.0/4.8.2</code> does not</p>
  
  <p>sessionInfo():</p>
  
  <pre><code>&gt; sessionInfo()
  R version 3.1.1 (2014-07-10)
  Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin13.1.0 (64-bit)
  
  locale:
  [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
  
  attached base packages:
  [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Sys.getenv():</p>
  
  <pre><code>&gt; Sys.getenv()
                                                                            __CF_USER_TEXT_ENCODING 
                                                                                        "0x1F5:0:0" 
                                                                                  __CHECKFIX1436934 
                                                                                                "1" 
                                                                         Apple_PubSub_Socket_Render 
                                                                        "/tmp/launch-jCxLku/Render" 
                                                                                            DISPLAY 
                                                                                               ":0" 
                                                                         DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH 
  "/Users/&lt;myusername&gt;/lib:/usr/local/lib:/usr/lib::/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/lib" 
                                                                                             EDITOR 
                                                                                               "vi" 
                                                                                        GIT_ASKPASS 
                                                                                "rpostback-askpass" 
                                                                                               HOME 
                                                                              "/Users/&lt;myusername&gt;" 
                                                                                               LANG 
                                                                                      "en_US.UTF-8" 
                                                                                           LC_CTYPE 
                                                                                      "en_US.UTF-8" 
                                                                                               LN_S 
                                                                                            "ln -s" 
                                                                                            LOGNAME 
                                                                                     "&lt;myusername&gt;" 
                                                                                               MAKE 
                                                                                             "make" 
                                                                                              PAGER 
                                                                                    "/usr/bin/less" 
                                                                                               PATH 
                                         "/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/texbin" 
                                                                                          R_BROWSER 
                                                                                    "/usr/bin/open" 
                                                                                          R_BZIPCMD 
                                                                                   "/usr/bin/bzip2" 
                                                                                          R_DOC_DIR 
                                                    "/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/doc" 
                                                                                          R_GZIPCMD 
                                                                                    "/usr/bin/gzip" 
                                                                                             R_HOME 
                                                        "/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources" 
                                                                                      R_INCLUDE_DIR 
                                                "/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/include" 
                                                                                        R_LIBS_SITE 
                                                                                                 "" 
                                                                                        R_LIBS_USER 
                                                                          "~/Library/R/3.1/library" 
                                                                                        R_PAPERSIZE 
                                                                                               "a4" 
                                                                                        R_PDFVIEWER 
                                                                                    "/usr/bin/open" 
                                                                                         R_PLATFORM 
                                                                        "x86_64-apple-darwin13.1.0" 
                                                                                         R_PRINTCMD 
                                                                                              "lpr" 
                                                                                             R_QPDF 
                                               "/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/qpdf" 
                                                                                           R_RD4PDF 
                                                                          "times,inconsolata,hyper" 
                                                                                   R_SESSION_TMPDIR 
                                     "/var/folders/jf/ds4sdyys44xckz_7f9zhrvsh0000gn/T//RtmpXaPpYF" 
                                                                                        R_SHARE_DIR 
                                                  "/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/share" 
                                                                                       R_SYSTEM_ABI 
                                                                           "osx,gcc,gxx,gfortran,?" 
                                                                                      R_TEXI2DVICMD 
                                                                                "/usr/bin/texi2dvi" 
                                                                                         R_UNZIPCMD 
                                                                                   "/usr/bin/unzip" 
                                                                                           R_ZIPCMD 
                                                                                     "/usr/bin/zip" 
                                                                                  RS_RPOSTBACK_PATH 
                                               "/Applications/RStudio.app/Contents/MacOS/rpostback" 
                                                                                   RS_SHARED_SECRET 
                                                                                          &lt;removed&gt; 
                                                                                            RSTUDIO 
                                                                                                "1" 
                                                                                     RSTUDIO_PANDOC 
                                                  "/Applications/RStudio.app/Contents/MacOS/pandoc" 
                                                                               RSTUDIO_SESSION_PORT 
                                                                                            "10153" 
                                                                              RSTUDIO_USER_IDENTITY 
                                                                                    "&lt;myusername&gt;" 
                                                                                                SED 
                                                                                     "/usr/bin/sed" 
                                                                                              SHELL 
                                                                                        "/bin/bash" 
                                                                                      SSH_AUTH_SOCK 
                                                                     "/tmp/launch-Shnu2H/Listeners" 
                                                                                                TAR 
                                                                                     "/usr/bin/tar" 
                                                                                             TMPDIR 
                                                "/var/folders/jf/ds4sdyys44xckz_7f9zhrvsh0000gn/T/" 
                                                                                               USER 
                                                                                    "&lt;myusername&gt;"     
  </code></pre>