Snapshot won't configure on SunOS 5.3

[Jim Robison-Cox]

R-crew,

   I'm trying to install the R-Snapshot which I downloaded a few hours
ago and I'm having a problem I can't trace.  My system is

 Sun SPARC, SunOS 5.3 : 1996

>From running ./configure:***************************************
loading cache ./config.cache
checking for a BSD compatible install... /opt/local/R/R-snapshot/etc/install-sh -c
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking for bison... bison -y
checking for ar... ar
checking for ratfor... no
checking for perl... /usr/local/bin/perl
checking whether perl is perl 5... yes
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler (gcc  ) works... yes
checking whether the C compiler (gcc  ) is a cross-compiler... no
checking whether we are using GNU C... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for ranlib... (cached) ranlib
checking for g77... g77
checking for underscore after Fortran symbols... configure: error: Nothing worked - cannot use FORTRAN
*******End of ./configure output *********************************************

And make will not work.

Has anyone else had trouble with a Sun install?


Previous versions have configured and complied beautifully, as
this partial screen summary for ./configure on R-0.61 shows:

# checking for ranlib... (cached) ranlib
# checking for ar... (cached) ar
# checking for lpr... (cached) lpr
# checking how to run the C preprocessor... (cached) gcc -E

I also updated R-0.61 to 0.61.2 and 0.61.3 without any problem. It seems
this line in the older configure file returned true:
if test -z "$FC"
  Since it skipped from ar to lpr without comment.


The new configure seems quite different.  Any pointers?

TIA,
  Jim

Jim Robison-Cox                 ____________            
Department of Math Sciences    |            |           phone: (406)994-5340
2-214 Wilson Hall               \   BZN, MT |           FAX:   (406)994-1789
Montana State University         |  *_______|
Bozeman, MT 59717                 \_|         e-mail: jimrc@math.montana.edu 


-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-
r-devel mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html
Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe"
(in the "body", not the subject !)  To: r-devel-request@stat.math.ethz.ch
_._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._