cluster installation hangs or too many args (PR#1624)

[Robert Gentleman]

On Sun, Jun 02, 2002 at 02:45:55AM +0200, felix@sprintlabs.com wrote:
> Full_Name: Felix Hernandez-Campos
> Version: R-1.5.0
> OS: IRIX, FreeBSD, Solaris
> Submission from: (NULL) (208.30.174.32)
> 
> 
> [R-1.5.0]
> 
> The installation of the package cluster fails in FreeBSD (4.2) and IRIX (6.5)
> (but it works fine for Solaris). In FreeBSD, the installation hangs right after
> 
> 
> f77   -fPIC  -g -O2 -c clara.f -o clara.o
> 
> (the first FORTRAN compile). In IRIX, the program also hangs at the same point,
> 

 I can confirm this on my FreeBSD (4.5).
 I believe that there have been a number of changes to configure for
 the 1.5 release.
 I can also confirm that the fix also seems to work.

  Thanks,

    Robert


> but after a minute or two, it returns an error about an "arg list too long".
> The
> problem is in ~R/bin/f77. I added a print out statement in ~R/bin/f77 and it
> shows
> that this script is calling itself endlessly (rather than invoking the f77
> compiler).
> I have been able to solve the problem in both platforms by changing the
> following 
> line in ~R/bin/f77
> 
> : ${F77='f77'}
> 
> by
> 
> : ${F77='/usr/bin/f77'}
> 
> P.S. I was always able to install the package cluster without this modification
> in
> R-1.4 and R-1.3.
> 
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