[R] Install on Solaris 5.9

[ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]

On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Campbell wrote:

> I'm trying to install R-1.6.2 on a Sparc machine running Solaris 5.9.  I download and unpack R, run ./Configure from the R directory.  Configure fails.The last line on the Configure script prints is 'Checking for Fortran 77 name-mangling scheme',  This output and the config.log files are available at:
> 	http://www.phineas.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/config.log
> and
> 	http://www.phineas.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/configout
> 
> If you prefer I could post these 2 files directly to the mailing list.
> 
> I currently have autoconf 2.57, automake 1.7.2, gcc 3.2.2, make 3.80 
and readline 4.3 installed. 

gcc 3.2.2 has a fatal bug for compiling R on Solaris, so the first thing 
you need is a less buggy C compiler.  Preferably the Sun C/F9x compilers, 
but failing that gcc 3.2 will do.


You don't appear to have a working Fortran compiler installed, as 
config.log says at the end (before the symbols)

configure:15266: error: cannot compile a simple Fortran program
See `config.log' for more details.

It's found something called fc, which does not work.  If you have really 
installed gcc 3.2.2, the build went wrong and g77 did not get installed.


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