[R] problem with compilation of R on Solaris 10 in x86

[Prof Brian Ripley]

This has come up several times, all with long obselete versions of gcc. 
R does not use __builtin_isnan, but gcc does in its own (rather than 
Solaris') header files.  So it is an issue with the compiler, and note 
that 3.4.2 is an old (Sept 2004) version of the compiler.

If you are happy to use SunFreeware, they offer a pre-built R (apart for 
some unstated reason for the foreign package) at

http://www.sunfreeware.com/programlistintel10.html#R

and so it would appear that others have succeeded with more recent 
compilers.


On Wed, 31 Jan 2007, Wolfgang Raffelsberger wrote:

> Dear List,
> we're trying to install R on Solaris10 on a x86 (amd64).
>
> During the installation we pass successfully the ./configure but we get
> an error through the built-in function "_isnan" which we see existing in
> /lib
>
> When passing the command "make" we get :
>
> gcc -std=gnu99 -I../../src/extra/zlib -I../../src/extra/bzip2
> -I../../src/extra/pcre   -I. -I../../src/include -I../../src/include
> -I/usr/local/include -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -D__NO_MATH_INLINES  -g -O2 -c
> serialize.c -o serialize.o
> In file included from ../../src/include/Rinternals.h:921,
>                 from ../../src/include/Defn.h:72,
>                 from serialize.c:29:
> ../../src/include/Rinlinedfuns.h: In function `fmin2_int':
> ../../src/include/Rinlinedfuns.h:602: warning: implicit declaration of
> function `__builtin_isnan'
>
> [... and ...]
> gcc -std=gnu99  -L/usr/local/lib -o R.bin Rmain.o CConverters.o
> CommandLineArgs.o  Rdynload.o Renviron.o RNG.o  apply.o arithmetic.o
> apse.o array.o attrib.o  base.o bind.o builtin.o  character.o coerce.o
> colors.o complex.o connections.o context.o  cov.o cum.o  dcf.o
> datetime.o debug.o deparse.o deriv.o  dotcode.o dounzip.o dstruct.o
> duplicate.o  engine.o envir.o errors.o eval.o  format.o fourier.o
> gevents.o gram.o gram-ex.o graphics.o  identical.o internet.o
> iosupport.o  lapack.o list.o localecharset.o logic.o  main.o mapply.o
> match.o memory.o model.o  names.o  objects.o optim.o optimize.o
> options.o  par.o paste.o pcre.o platform.o  plot.o plot3d.o plotmath.o
> print.o printarray.o printvector.o printutils.o qsort.o  random.o
> regex.o registration.o relop.o rlocale.o  saveload.o scan.o seq.o
> serialize.o size.o sort.o source.o split.o  sprintf.o startup.o
> subassign.o subscript.o subset.o summary.o sysutils.o  unique.o util.o
> version.o vfonts.o xxxpr.o  mkdtemp.o ../unix/libun!
> ix.a ../appl/libappl.a ../nmath/libnmath.a -L../../lib -lRblas
> -L/opt/sfw/lib/gcc/i386-pc-solaris2.10/3.4.2 -L/usr/ccs/bin
> -L/opt/sfw/lib -lg2c -lm -lgcc_s  ../extra/zlib/libz.a
> ../extra/bzip2/libbz2.a ../extra/pcre/libpcre.a
> ../extra/intl/libintl.a  -lreadline -lncurses -lnsl -lsocket -ldl -lm
> Undefined                       first referenced
> symbol                             in file
> __builtin_isnan                     arithmetic.o
> ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to R.bin
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>
>
> Thank's in advance for all hints how we could overcome this problem,
> Wolfgang
>
>
>
> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
> . . . . .
>
> Wolfgang Raffelsberger, PhD
> Laboratoire de BioInformatique et Génomique Intégrative
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