[Rd] Solaris 2.6 Compile (PR#1268)

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk writes:

> > Got the following error when compiling on Solaris 2.6 with the standard GNU
> > gcc package (from the Sun site).   BTW - linux compiles no problem (and fast
> > too :-)
> 
> You sent this twice, for some reason.
> 
> It's hard to tell what `the standard GNU gcc package (from the Sun site)'
> actually is.  However, R 1.3.1 did compile under Solaris 2.6 with gcc
> 2.95.3 compiled under Solaris 2.6.  The error appears to be a mismatch
> between your compiler and your assembler.  I don't think that qualifies as
> a bug in R, and definitely is one we can do nothing about.  lbfgsb.c does
> seem to be valid C that is accepted by a wide range of compilers on
> Solaris and elsewhere.

Assuming that the "Sun site" means www.sunfreeware.com, I seem to
recall that you get in trouble if you use gcc3 without GNU binutils.

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