[Rd] Build Portland Group Compiler

[Peter Dalgaard]

Jennifer Lai <lai at lindaspaces.com> writes:

> Hi,
>     I built R with Portland Group compiler, but I noticed one thing that 
> when I ran configure for the first time on AMD machine, I got the 
> following error:
> 
> 
> checking whether the C compiler works... configure: error: cannot run C 
> compiled programs.
> If you meant to cross compile, use `--host'.
> See `config.log' for more details.
> 
> 
> 
> so I tried to set host=x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, which seems to work, 
> except what puzzles me is that there is warning messages indicating C 
> longs are 4 bytes.
> 
> *******************************************
> % configure --host=x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
> .
> .
> .
> R is now configured for x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
> 
>   Source directory:          .
>   Installation directory:    /usr/local/R.pgcc
> 
>   C compiler:                /usr/pgi/linux86-64/6.0/bin/pgcc  -g -O2 
> -mieee-fp
>   C++ compiler:              /usr/pgi/linux86-64/6.0/bin/pgCC  -g
>   Fortran compiler:          /usr/pgi/linux86-64/6.0/bin/pgf77  -O2
> 
>   Interfaces supported:      X11
>   External libraries:        readline
>   Additional capabilities:   PNG, JPEG, MBCS, NLS
>   Options enabled:           R profiling
> 
>   Recommended packages:      yes
> 
> configure: WARNING: assuming C ints are 4 byte on x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
> configure: WARNING: assuming C longs are 4 byte on x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
> configure: WARNING: you cannot build info or html versions of the R manuals
> 
> 
> Am I defining a wrong host?

You're not doing yourself a favour, anyway. 4-byte longs are
definitely not a good idea on Linux. What is worse, you are building a
cross-target, which means that configure is not even going to try
running any compiled programs, not that they work any better than
before.

The thing to do is to look inside config.log and see what causes
configure to conclude that you cannot run C compiled programs.

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