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

[Kurt Hornik]

>>>>> Robert Gentleman writes:

> 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.

Yes and they are documented in the release notes.

>  I can also confirm that the fix also seems to work.

I assume the problem only occurs because R_HOME/bin is in PATH?

-k

>   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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