[BioC] Trouble building Bioconductor

[Herve Pages]

Atro Tossavainen wrote:

>Dear Mr Pages
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>(Taking this out of the mailing list - probably no longer of general
>interest if it ever was.)
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Yes it's still of general interest.

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>>We modified the code in the gcrma package so now it should build
>>with an ANSI-compliant C compiler.
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>Thank you!  It did indeed.
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>rowPAUCs.c in genefilter seems to require C99 too.
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Please consider reporting this problem with the maintainer of
the package.

>For whatever's it's worth, Studio 11 on Sun (which is free, and is
>also available for Linux on x86 as well as Solaris on x86) compiles
>C99 at least sufficiently to survive these uses of C99 features.
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Yes good news. It's free since... november 2005.
And you need at least Solaris 8. Wasn't your system Solaris 7?

>I have yet to try out MIPSpro 7.4 on SGI, but will let you know once
>I have.
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