[Rd] make fails with Sun Forte compiler (PR#6815)

[Prof Brian Ripley]

The instructions in R-admin *have* been tested.  It does tell you how to 
specify the sunperf BLAS, so please read it -- it probably even selects it 
by default.

I don't see any evidence of a bug in R here, rather of a problem in your 
setup.  Please seek local advice. My suspicion is that you want 
"-xarch=v8plusa" in CFLAGS and not in CC.

You might want to try untaring foreign and installing it, then looking at 
config.log.

Please ask questions on R-help not R-bugs: the R FAQ explains rather 
plainly when R-bugs is appropriate.


On Fri, 23 Apr 2004 rsparapa at mcw.edu wrote:

> Full_Name: rodney sparapani
> Version: 1.9.0
> OS: Solaris 9
> Submission from: (NULL) (141.106.120.97)
> 
> 
> I'm following the instructions for the Sun Forte compiler.  I had success with
> 1.8.1 so I think the compiler settings are correct (config.site):
>      CC="cc -xarch=v8plusa"
>      CFLAGS="-xO5 -xlibmil -dalign"
>      F77="f95 -xarch=v8plusa"
>      FFLAGS="-xO5 -xlibmil -dalign"
>      CXX="CC -xarch=v8plusa"
>      CXXFLAGS="-xO5 -xlibmil -dalign"
> Actually, there is one thing that I didn't specify above, but I'm not sure how. 
> The Sun Performance library is a BLAS library.  In LAPACK, you specify it as 
> BLASLIB     ="-xlic_lib=sunperf"
> Is there a simple way to specify that in config.site?  Anyways, that's probably
> not the problem that I'm having, but if you have any advice...  
> Here's the real problem, make fails at:
> MAKE="make" R_LIBS= ../../../bin/R CMD INSTALL -l ../../../library foreign.tgz
> * Installing *source* package 'foreign' ...
> checking for gcc... make[3]: Entering directory `/tmp/R.INSTALL.8673/foreign'
> cc -xarch=v8plusa
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/tmp/R.INSTALL.8673/foreign'
> checking for C compiler default output... configure: error: C compiler cannot
> create executables
> See `config.log' for more details.
> error: configuration failed for package 'foreign': No such file or directory for
> reading errors.
> ** Removing '/fw/src/R/R-1.9.0/library/foreign'
> make[2]: *** [foreign.ts] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/fw/src/R/R-1.9.0/src/library/Recommended'
> make[1]: *** [recommended-packages] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/fw/src/R/R-1.9.0/src/library/Recommended'
> make: *** [stamp-recommended] Error 2
> 
> foreign seems to be having a compiler problem that other recommended packages
> did not.  Any ideas?
> 
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