[Rd] Installing R-1.1.0 (PR#612)

[Albrecht Gebhardt]

On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, Prof Brian D Ripley wrote:

> On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, Berwin Turlach wrote:
> 
> > Dear Brian,
> > 
> > >>>>> "BDR" == Prof Brian D Ripley <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk> writes:
> > 
> >   BDR> i686-pc-linux-gnu is a widely used and tested platform for R,
> >   BDR> and we know that 1.1.0 and the latest patched version both pass
> >   BDR> `make check' on a Debian distribution (2.2?) and RedHat 6.0 and
> >   BDR> (RedHat 6.2 with gcc-2.95.2) and various others.
> > 
> >   BDR> This suggests that the problem is specific to your Linux
> >   BDR> installation, so can you give us more details please?
> > Sure. 
> > 
> > At the end of ./configure in the unpacked R-1.1.0 directory I get:
> > 
> >     R is now configured for i686-pc-linux-gnu
> >     
> >       Source directory:         .
> >       Installation directory:   /usr/local.own
> >       C compiler:               gcc  -mieee-fp -D__NO_MATH_INLINES -g -O2
> >       FORTRAN compiler:         g77  -g -O2
> >       X11 support:              yes
> >       Gnome support:            no
> >       Tcl/Tk support:           yes
> > 
> > I append below the config.cache that is created.
> > 
> > My system is essentially a RedHat 6.0 with a 2.2.10 kernel.
> > 
> > I am using the Pentium GCC (http://www.goof.com/pcg/)
> > 
> >     bossiaea:/opt/R/R-1.1.0$ which gcc
> >     /usr/local.own/bin/gcc
> >     bossiaea:/opt/R/R-1.1.0$ gcc --version
> >     pgcc-2.91.60
> 
> I suspect a bug in that compiler, as you had problems with NAs,
> and that is the only thing that seems different from known working setups.
> My suggestion would be to use gcc-2.95.2, which I compiled from
> source and works well for us on RH6.0.  Or even try the compiler
> that comes with RH6.0 (egcs-2.91.66, I believe).
> 

Choose gcc-2.95.2, egcs causes problems with loading shared objects which  
may result in crashes, at least egcs-1.1.2.

Albrecht

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