minor installation problems

[Michael Hohn]

Hello,

I just finished installing R-0.64.1 on my linux machine (using kernel
2.0.36 under red hat 5.2, and 
gcc version egcs-2.91.60 19981201 (egcs-1.1.1 release)
)

The two problems I had:

1. ./configure --with-readline --with-x --prefix=/usr/local
   ran to a point, then gave up with
    ...	  
    checking return type of signal handlers... void
    checking for working const... yes
    checking size of long... 0
    Size of long must be at least 32 bits

Manual modification of ./configure to use 4 bytes fixed this problem.  
A manual run of the autoconf C program

#include "confdefs.h"
#include <stdio.h>
main()
{
  FILE *f=fopen("conftestval", "w");
  if (!f) exit(1);
  fprintf(f, "%d\n", sizeof(long));
  exit(0);
}

produced the correct result, so
I don't know where this zero size problem came from.  


2.  After the final linking of R via

g77 -o ../../bin/R.binary  arithmetic.o array.o attrib.o bind.o
builtin.o character.o coerce.o colors.o complex.o context.o cov.o
cum.o debug.o deparse.o deriv.o devices.o dotcode.o dstruct.o
duplicate.o envir.o errors.o eval.o format.o fourier.o gram.o
gram-ex.o graphics.o iosupport.o list.o logic.o main.o match.o
memory.o model.o names.o objects.o optimize.o options.o par.o paste.o
platform.o plot.o plot3d.o plotmath.o print.o printarray.o
printvector.o printutils.o random.o relop.o saveload.o scan.o seq.o
sort.o source.o split.o subassign.o subscript.o subset.o summary.o
unique.o util.o version.o ../unix/libunix.a ../appl/libappl.a
../nmath/libmath.a -lSM -lICE -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lX11 -lreadline -lz
-ldl -lncurses -lm

the binary would exit with the error

    /usr/local/lib/R-0.64.1/bin/R.binary: error in loading shared
    libraries
    : undefined symbol: __register_frame_info

when run.

This symbol is defined in libstdc++.  A manual link via 

g77 -o ../../bin/R.binary /usr/lib/libstdc++.so arithmetic.o array.o
attrib.o bind.o builtin.o character.o coerce.o colors.o complex.o
context.o cov.o cum.o debug.o deparse.o deriv.o devices.o dotcode.o
dstruct.o duplicate.o envir.o errors.o eval.o format.o fourier.o
gram.o gram-ex.o graphics.o iosupport.o list.o logic.o main.o match.o
memory.o model.o names.o objects.o optimize.o options.o par.o paste.o
platform.o plot.o plot3d.o plotmath.o print.o printarray.o
printvector.o printutils.o random.o relop.o saveload.o scan.o seq.o
sort.o source.o split.o subassign.o subscript.o subset.o summary.o
unique.o util.o version.o ../unix/libunix.a ../appl/libappl.a
../nmath/libmath.a -lSM -lICE -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lX11 -lreadline -lz
-ldl -lncurses -lm

produced a working executable.



Any ideas on the source of these two problems?

Cheers,
	Mike
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