[Rd] make fails with utf-8 locale, RH9 (PR#6958)

[Prof Brian Ripley]

There is no known problem with LANG=C on Solaris and it is tested
regularly. Clearly from

> but ld breaks if I do
>
> $ gcc prog.c -lm

this is nothing to do with R or autoconf.

On Fri, 2 Jul 2004 eweese at bank-banque-canada.ca wrote:

> I don't know enough to be sure that this is a related problem, but it 
> looks similar...
> 
> I just compiled 1.9.1 on sparc-sun-solaris, and ld would do
> 
> collect2: ld terminated with signal 11 [Segmentation Fault], core dumped
> 
> in ./configure.  This is because LC_CTYPE was set to C.  If I deleted 
> that line, leaving LC_CTYPE at its standard setting of 
> "en_CA.ISO8859-1", ld worked fine.  If I try to compile a simple program 

That is *NOT* a utf-8 locale.

> with LC_CTYPE=C, it works fine with
> 
> $ gcc prog.c
> 
> but ld breaks if I do
> 
> $ gcc prog.c -lm
> 
> Anyways, I'm not sure whether this is an R problem, or an autoconf 
> problem, or what, but I thought I would try here first...

Please do read the section on BUGS in the R FAQ, and do not use R-bugs to 
report errors in your own system configuration.

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