[Rd] Build Portland Group Compiler

[Peter Dalgaard]

Jennifer Lai <lai at lindaspaces.com> writes:

> I can't duplicate the error message. After running "configure
> --host=x86_64-unknow-linux-gnu" for the first time, I was able to run
> configure without providing --host argument. Even start with a fresh
> copy of R-devel didn't help me to get the original error. Is the host
> info been cached somewhere in R?

Not that I know of... Back in the old days we had config.cache playing
tricks on people, but it shouldn't be there anymore. 

If you're not already doing so, do yourself a favour and build in a
separate directory, keeping the sources untouched. It's much easier to
clean up and start over that way.

> >>Hi,
> >>    I built R with Portland Group compiler, but I noticed one thing
> >> that when I ran configure for the first time on AMD machine, I got
> >> the following error:
> >>
> >>
> >> checking whether the C compiler works... configure: error: cannot
> >> run C compiled programs.
> >>If you meant to cross compile, use `--host'.
> >>See `config.log' for more details.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> so I tried to set host=x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, which seems to
> >> work, except what puzzles me is that there is warning messages
> >> indicating C longs are 4 bytes.
> >>
> >>*******************************************
> >>% configure --host=x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
> >>.
> >>.
> >>.
> >>R is now configured for x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
> >>
> >>  Source directory:          .
> >>  Installation directory:    /usr/local/R.pgcc
> >>
> >>  C compiler:                /usr/pgi/linux86-64/6.0/bin/pgcc  -g
> >> -O2 -mieee-fp
> >>  C++ compiler:              /usr/pgi/linux86-64/6.0/bin/pgCC  -g
> >>  Fortran compiler:          /usr/pgi/linux86-64/6.0/bin/pgf77  -O2
> >>
> >>  Interfaces supported:      X11
> >>  External libraries:        readline
> >>  Additional capabilities:   PNG, JPEG, MBCS, NLS
> >>  Options enabled:           R profiling
> >>
> >>  Recommended packages:      yes
> >>
> >>configure: WARNING: assuming C ints are 4 byte on x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
> >>configure: WARNING: assuming C longs are 4 byte on x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
> >>configure: WARNING: you cannot build info or html versions of the R manuals
> >>
> >>
> >>Am I defining a wrong host?
> >>
> >
> >You're not doing yourself a favour, anyway. 4-byte longs are
> >definitely not a good idea on Linux. What is worse, you are building a
> >cross-target, which means that configure is not even going to try
> >running any compiled programs, not that they work any better than
> >before.
> >
> >The thing to do is to look inside config.log and see what causes
> >configure to conclude that you cannot run C compiled programs.
> >
> >
> 
> 
> 

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