[Rd] 1.9.0 regression test on HP-UX (PR#6800)

[Prof Brian Ripley]

The crucial information is in tests/reg-tests-1.Rout.fail, at the bottom
(I expect).  Please do tell us what the failure was and we may be able to 
help.

Note that I have removed the bug repository from the followup: I don't see 
any evidence of an R bug here as yet.

On Tue, 20 Apr 2004 P.S.Hatton at bham.ac.uk wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On behalf of one of our users, I installed R 1.8.1 on HP-UX11.0 by 
> compiling the source using the gnu compilers and all was fine with
> 
> make check
> 
> On 1.9.0, I get an error from 'make check' when running reg-tests-1.R 
> which gives error exit code 1.  Commands used are:
> 
> ./configure --prefix=/apps/global/Gnu_R/R-1.9.0 --with-x 
> R_BROWSER=mozilla
> 
> (all on one line, of course)
> 
> make
> make check
> 
> I tried to get it to make with the HP-UX cc, aCC and f90 but couldn't 
> get it to make (make came back with numerous unresolved symbols such 
> as dtrsl), so I'm just using the gnu compilers. I guess that setting 
> the loader search path would get round this, but for now at least the 
> gnu compilers will be good enough.
> 
> Any advice appreciated.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 

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