Compilation of R-0.62.1 on DEC Alpha

[Douglas Bates]

I have compiled R-0.62.1 on a DEC Alpha system that is running Digital
Unix 4.0.  I had to change some settings in Makeconf from those
generated by configure.  I changed the LDCMD to gcc and the LIBS to
include -lFutil and -lfor.  (I wonder if they realized how close their
name for the Fortran utilities is to the word "futile".)  I also had
to force it to use the GNU version of the install program as the DEC
version is not as fully featured.

I get a compilation but it creates a floating point exception as soon
as you try to run it.
 $ /unsup/R-0.62.1/bin/R

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 Version 0.62.1  (June 15, 1998)

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 You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
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 Floating exception(coredump)
 $ 

Has anyone been successful building R-0.62.1 (and running it) on this
platform?

Builds on Solaris/SPARC and Solaris/Intel and Debian GNU/Linux Intel
went smoothly.  I may try to see if I can get a person running Debian
GNU/Linux on an Alpha to try a build there.
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