[R] Build fails for R 1.6.2: [base-Ex.Rout] Error 1

[Christopher Fonnesbeck]

Thanks,

I have made the change; once I build the rpm binary I will submit it to 
Martyn Plummer for the CRAN ftp site.

Chris Fonnesbeck

Marc Schwartz wrote:
> Peter Dalgaard BSA wrote:
> 
>> Thomas Lumley <tlumley at u.washington.edu> writes:
>>
>>
>>> On Tue, 8 Apr 2003, Christopher Fonnesbeck wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> I am trying to build 1.6.2 from source RPM's on RedHat 9, but encounter
>>>> a failure when running the base tests. An inspection of
>>>> base-Ex.Rout.fail reveals the following:
>>>>
>>
>> ...
>>
>>> Yes. The version of gcc in RedHat 9 will not distinguish NA and NaN at
>>> least sometimes, when optimization is used.  The bug report for 
>>> RedHat is
>>> at
>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=88174
>>>
>>> A fix has been added to the development version of R.
>>
>>
>>
>> Well, let's call it a workaround. The fix is gcc 3.3.
>>
>> ...but it's a one-liner: Inside the
>> static double R_ValueOfNA(void)
>>
>> in src/main/arithmetic.c
>>
>> declare x volatile, i.e.
>>
>> static double R_ValueOfNA(void)
>> {
>>     /* The gcc shipping with RedHat 9 gets this wrong without
>>      * the volatile declaration. Thanks to Marc Schwartz. */
>>     volatile ieee_double x;
>>     x.word[hw] = 0x7ff00000;
>>     x.word[lw] = 1954;
>>     return x.value;
>> }
>>
> 
> I can verify that the above change does work for R 1.6.2 and passes make 
> check under RH 9.
> 
> Chris, download the source tar file from CRAN and as Peter has pointed 
> out, make the change in line 119 in arithmetic.c.  Then:
> 
> ./configure
> make
> make check
> make install
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Marc Schwartz
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

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