[Rd] Build Portland Group Compiler

[Jennifer Lai]

My silly mistake. I didn't get the error message the second time is 
because I have set  LD_LIBRARY_PATH. If this value is unset, I would 
have gotten the same error message,

checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... configure: error: cannot run C 
compiled programs.
If you meant to cross compile, use `--host'.


Thank you for the help!

Sincerely,
Jennifer

Peter Dalgaard wrote:

>Jennifer Lai <lai at lindaspaces.com> writes:
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>>I can't duplicate the error message. After running "configure
>>--host=x86_64-unknow-linux-gnu" for the first time, I was able to run
>>configure without providing --host argument. Even start with a fresh
>>copy of R-devel didn't help me to get the original error. Is the host
>>info been cached somewhere in R?
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>Not that I know of... Back in the old days we had config.cache playing
>tricks on people, but it shouldn't be there anymore. 
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>If you're not already doing so, do yourself a favour and build in a
>separate directory, keeping the sources untouched. It's much easier to
>clean up and start over that way.
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>>>>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:
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>>>>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?
>>>>
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>>>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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