[R] seg fault with mclust

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> writes:

> On 31 Oct 2001, Andy Jacobson wrote:
> 
> >         I'm experiencing a segmentation fault when trying to load
> >         mclust.so from mclust-1.1-4.  I'm using R-1.3.1 on RedHat 6.2,
> >         and `gcc --version` reports "egcs-2.91.66".
> 
> Standard problem: the Fortran on that system is broken.  It works with
> gcc 2.95.3 or gcc 3.0.2, for example.  Avoid unreleased compilers put out
> by RedHat!
> 
> If this is a problem I can make available a known working mclust.so for
> RedHat 6.2.

(Actually, I think egcs-2.91.66 aka EGCS 1.1.2 *was* released by
someone responsible, it's just buggy...)

Beware that this is not the only one! Several other packages also fail
to load in the same way. When 1.4.0 comes out, builds of R itself will
fail with stock 6.2. (Unless someone can figure out a workaround,
which hardly seems worth the effort. F2c is a workaround, btw, but it
is not standard with RH.)

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