[R] make check on Solaris 8 fails due to plot

[Adaikalavan Ramasamy]

Many thanks to Prof.Ripley and Dr.Dalgaard. Yes, I am using gcc-3.2.2
(correctly configured for solaris 2.8) and this could be the problem.

Is there a way to fix this myself ? My machine specs are 'SunOS enterprise
5.8 Generic_108528-23 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-Enterprise'.

The R-admin seems to suggest that I can solve this by redefining the CC,
FFLAGS, CXXFLAGS and LDFLAGS in the config.site file but I am not sure if I
am reading it correctly and am unable to find the config.site file.

Thanks again.

Regards, Adai.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch
> [mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch]On Behalf Of Prof Brian Ripley
> Sent: 16 March 2004 07:13
> To: Adaikalavan Ramasamy
> Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [R] make check on Solaris 8 fails due to plot
>
>
> See the R-admin manual: this happens for certain broken versions of
> Solaris-sparc gcc.  If that is not the cause we would need to know much
> more about what you used to build R.
>
> We do regularly test on Solaris 8, with gcc 3.3.3 and Forte 7.
>
>
> On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, Adaikalavan Ramasamy wrote:
>
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I am having trouble trying to install R-1.8.1 on a Sun Solaris 8
> > (Generic_108528-23 version) machine. The configuration was
> successful but
> > make check fails. I traced the the problem to the plot() function.
> >
> > > 1 + 1
> > [1] 2
> > > capabilities()
> >     jpeg      png    tcltk      X11    GNOME     libz http/ftp  sockets
> >     TRUE    FALSE     TRUE     TRUE    FALSE     TRUE     TRUE     TRUE
> >   libxml     fifo   cledit  IEEE754    bzip2     PCRE
> >     TRUE     TRUE     TRUE     TRUE     TRUE     TRUE
> > > plot( 1:10 )
> > Bus Error
> >
> > and R terminates to the shell prompt. I have searched the
> archives with no
> > success. Can anyone kindly help me fix the problem or at least
> show me how
> > to get more information about the error.
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> > --
> > Adaikalavan Ramasamy                    ramasamy at cancer.org.uk
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