[Rd] Compiling R on Linux with SunStudio 12.1: "wide-character type" problems

[Martyn Plummer]

Russ,

This is a known issue with Sun Studio on Linux and was fixed by Brian
Ripley in January. If you download R-patched.tar.gz from here:

ftp://ftp.stat.math.ethz.ch/Software/R/

then it should work for you.

Martyn

On Mon, 2010-02-22 at 13:11 -0600, rt wrote:
> I am trying to compile R on Linux using SunStudio. Configure flags are
> mostly as suggested in the R install guide.
> 
> CC=/opt/sun/sunstudio12.1/bin/suncc
> CFLAGS="-g -xc99 -xlibmil -xlibmieee"
> MAIN_CFLAGS=-g
> SHLIB_CFLAGS=-g
> CPPFLAGS="-I. -I/opt/sun/sunstudio12.1/prod/include
> -I/opt/sun/sunstudio12.1/prod/include/cc"
> CPPFLAGS+="-I/opt/sun/sunstudio12.1/prod/include/cc/sys
> -I/usr/local/include"
> F77=/opt/sun/sunstudio12.1/bin/sunf95
> FFLAGS="-g -O -libmil "
> SAFE_FFLAGS="-g -libmil"
> CPICFLAGS=-Kpic
> FPICFLAGS=-Kpic
> SHLIB_LDFLAGS=-shared
> LDFLAGS=-L/opt/sun/sunstudio12.1/lib/386
> CXX=/opt/sun/sunstudio12.1/bin/sunCC
> CXXFLAGS="-g -xlibmil -xlibmieee"
> CXXPICFLAGS=-Kpic
> SHLIB_CXXLDFLAGS="-G -lCstd"
> FC=/opt/sun/sunstudio12.1/bin/sunf95
> FCFLAGS=$FFLAGS
> FCPICFLAGS=-Kpic
> MAKE=dmake
> 
> R install guide also indicates that: "The OS needs to have enough support
> for wide-character types: this is checked at configuration. Specifically,
> the C99 functionality of headers wchar.h and wctype.h, types wctans_t and
> mbstate_t and functions mbrtowc, mbstowcs, wcrtomb, wcscoll, wcstombs,
> wctrans, wctype, and iswctype."
> Configure stops with the following error message:
> 
> checking iconv.h usability... yes
> checking iconv.h presence... yes
> checking for iconv.h... yes
> checking for iconv... in libiconv
> checking whether iconv accepts "UTF-8", "latin1" and "UCS-"... yes
> checking for iconvlist... yes
> checking wchar.h usability... yes
> checking wchar.h presence... yes
> checking for wchar.h... yes
> checking wctype.h usability... yes
> checking wctype.h presence... yes
> checking for wctype.h... yes
> checking whether mbrtowc exists and is declared... yes
> checking whether wcrtomb exists and is declared... yes
> checking whether wcscoll exists and is declared... yes
> checking whether wcsftime exists and is declared... yes
> checking whether wcstod exists and is declared... yes
> checking whether mbstowcs exists and is declared... yes
> checking whether wcstombs exists and is declared... yes
> **checking whether wctrans exists and is declared... no
> checking whether iswblank exists and is declared... no
> checking whether wctype exists and is declared... no
> checking whether iswctype exists and is declared... no
> configure: error: Support for MBCS locales is required.*
> 
> Relevant parts of config.log are as follows:
> 
> configure:39472: checking whether iswctype exists and is declared
> configure:39510: /opt/sun/sunstudio12.1/bin/suncc -o conftest -g -xc99
> -xlibmil -xlibmieee -m32  -I. -I/opt/sun/sunstudio12.1/prod/include
> -I/opt/sun/sunstudio12.1/prod/include/cc-I/opt/sun/sunstudio12.1/prod/include/cc/sys
> -I/usr/local/include  -L/opt/sun/sunstudio12.1/lib/386 -L/usr/local/lib
> conftest.c -ldl -lm  -liconv >&5
> *"/usr/include/wctype.h", line 112: syntax error before or at: __wc
> "/usr/include/wctype.h", line 195: syntax error before or at: towlower
> "/usr/include/wctype.h", line 302: syntax error before or at: towupper_l
> "/usr/include/wctype.h", line 302: syntax error before or at: __wc
> "/usr/include/wctype.h", line 310: syntax error before or at: towctrans_l
> "/usr/include/wctype.h", line 310: syntax error before or at: __wc
> cc: acomp failed for conftest.c
> configure:39516: $? = 1
> configure: failed program was:
> | /* confdefs.h.  */
> *| #define PACKAGE_NAME "R"
> ........
> ........
> *| #include <wctype.h>
> *|
> | #ifdef F77_DUMMY_MAIN
> |
> | #  ifdef __cplusplus
> |      extern "C"
> | #  endif
> |    int F77_DUMMY_MAIN() { return 1; }
> |
> | #endif
> *| int
> | main ()
> | {
> | #ifndef iswctype
> |   char *p = (char *) iswctype;
> | #endif
> |
> |   ;
> |   return 0;
> | }
> configure:39534: result: no
> configure:39710: error: Support for MBCS locales is required.*
> 
> I am not sure if this is a Linux issue or if it is a SunStudio issue.  Has
> anybody tried to compile R on Linux using SunStudio?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Russ
> 
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