[Rd] Buidling R on Linux (Itanium) fails (PR#7897)

[Bader at lrz.de]

Full_Name: Reinhold Bader
Version: 2.1.0
OS: SLES 9
Submission from: (NULL) (129.187.48.1)


I tried to build R using the Intel compilers (icc, ifort) and the Math Kernel
Libraries
for BLAS/LAPACK

Optimizations used were -O3, and the 
FPICFLAGS="-fpic"
was exported.

The build failed with the following error message:
...
dumping R code in package 'methods'
Saving namespace image ...
initializing class and method definitions now ...Error in
makePrototypeFromClassDef(properties, ClassDef, immediate, where) :
        in making the prototype for class "SClassExtension" elements of the
prototype failed to match the corresponding slot class: coerce (class
“character” ), test (class “character” ), replace (class “character” ), simple
(class “character” ), dataPart (class “character” )
Error: .onLoad failed in 'loadNamespace' for 'methods'
Execution halted

I am not a R specialist; how do I continue from here?
make[4]: *** [../..