[Rd] Error compiling rgl package

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 3/16/2009 9:31 AM, Mohammad Nikseresht wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Unfortunately I still get the same errors:
> 
> CC -xtarget=native64 -I/opt/R-2.8.1/lib/R/include -I/usr/sfw/include 
> -I/opt/csw/include -DHAVE_PNG_H -I/usr/include/libpng12 -DHAVE_FREETYPE 
> -Iext/ftgl -I/usr/sfw/include/freetype2 -I/usr/sfw/include -Iext 
> -I/opt/SUNWhpc/HPC8.1/sun/include -I/usr/sfw/include -I/opt/csw/include 
>     -KPIC  -O -c Background.cpp -o Background.o
> "math.h", line 47: Error: modf is not a member of file level.
> "math.h", line 48: Error: modff is not a member of file level.
> "Shape.hpp", line 58: Error: The function "strncpy" must have a prototype.
> 3 Error(s) detected.
> *** Error code 3

That looks like the previous version:  there's no longer a math.h in the 
package.  Maybe you downloaded too quickly, or downloaded to the 
directory containing the old source and have a mix of both?

Duncan Murdoch

> 
> 
> --
> Mohammad
> 
> Duncan Murdoch wrote:
>> On 12/03/2009 3:16 PM, Mohammad Nikseresht wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I receive the following error while I try to install rgl package:
>>>
>>> CC -xtarget=native64 -I/opt/R-2.8.1/lib/R/include 
>>> -I/opt/SUNWhpc/HPC8.1/sun/include -DHAVE_PNG_H -I/usr/include/libpng12 
>>> -DHAVE_FREETYPE -Iext/ftgl -I/usr/sfw/include/freetype2 
>>> -I/usr/sfw/include -Iext -I/opt/SUNWhpc/HPC8.1/sun/include 
>>> -I/usr/sfw/include -I/opt/csw/include    -KPIC  -O -c Background.cpp 
>>> -o Background.o
>>> "math.h", line 47: Error: modf is not a member of file level.
>>> "math.h", line 48: Error: modff is not a member of file level.
>>> "Shape.hpp", line 58: Error: The function "strncpy" must have a 
>>> prototype.
>>> 3 Error(s) detected.
>>>
>>> I am using Sun studio 12.
>>> I suspect that this is an incompatibility between g++ and Sun studio CC.
>>> I would appreciate any you could share your experience with me.
>> 
>> Brian Ripley contributed some patches that should help with this.  Could 
>> you check out the source from R-forge, and confirm that it now compiles 
>> on your system?  (Or wait for the tarball there to be updated to 0.84-1 
>> in a few hours, and download that.)
>> 
>> Thanks Brian, for the patch.
>> 
>> Duncan Murdoch