problems building on Solaris 7 (was [R] make check fails after base-Ex.R)

[Charles C. Berry]

Following the suggestion (below), I installed gcc-2.95.2.

This solved the segfault and make check hiccups.

Thanks so much,

Chuck Berry

On Sun, 12 Mar 2000, Prof Brian D Ripley wrote:

> On Sat, 11 Mar 2000, Charles C. Berry wrote:
> 
> > Dear R-help,
> > 
> > 
> > I tried to build the R-release version of R-1.0.0.
> 
> Do you mean the R-release version, period?  There have been problems
> with the distribution of that.
> 

That's what I meant.


> > ./configure and make seemed to go just fine.
> > 
[delete description of segfault and make check problems]
> >
> 
> We have no problems with Solaris 2.7 aka 7, gcc 2.95.2 (never tried 2.95.1,
> which was current for only a very short while) built ourselves (on 2.6) and
> GNU or Sun make.  On what version was your binary compiler distribution
> built? That site has 2.95.2 for Solaris 7 currently (and emacs-20.4 even
> though .6 is out!)  I would try that for a start (although I would build my
> own).
> 
> 
> > Version:
> >  platform = sparc-sun-solaris2.7
> >  arch = sparc
> >  os = solaris2.7
> >  system = sparc, solaris2.7
> >  status = Patched
> >  major = 1
> >  minor = 0.0
> >  year = 2000
> >  month = February
> >  day = 29
> >  language = R
> 
> This indicates the R-release distribution during a phase when it was out of
> date (and so actually unpatched).
> 
> 
> -- 
> Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
> Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
> University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
> 1 South Parks Road,                     +44 1865 272860 (secr)
> Oxford OX1 3TG, UK                Fax:  +44 1865 272595
> 
> 

Charles C. Berry                        (858) 534-2098 
                                         Dept of Family/Preventive Medicine
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