[Rd] R-2.3.1 does not install on FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE (PR#8971)

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, Kenji Rikitake wrote:

> Prof. Ripley:
>
> In the message <Pine.LNX.4.64.0606130640470.23931 at gannet.stats.ox.ac.uk>
> dated Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 06:53:20AM +0100,
> Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> writes:
>> The first point is already changed in R-patched: please try it and
>> confirm. [...]
>
> I'm compiling the kit R-patched_2006-06-12.tar.gz right now.  The buggy
> code is surely removed and it's keep on building well.
>
>> What architecture and compiler is this (and is FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE not
>> rather old)?  va_copy is a C99 feature, and was introduced as __va_copy
>> well before 1999.  (__va_copy was in gcc 2.95.3 for example, and 2.3.1
>> builds on platforms with __va_copy and not va_copy.)
>
> gcc 2.95.4 on FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE-p18; note that stdarg(3) says
>
> STANDARDS
>     The va_start(), va_arg(), and va_end() macros conform to ISO/IEC
>     9899:1990 (``ISO C90'').
>
> And va_copy() does not exist.  I think this is a common FreeBSD-related
> problem, fixed in a later release, on 5.x or 6.x.

__va_copy is supposed to exist on that compiler, and the R code maps 
__va_copy to va_copy when the first exists and the second does not.


>> Your second point seems to be covered by the instructions to set umask
>> appropriately: people who have are not having to change permissions after
>> installation.
>
> I set umask to 0022 manually and did "make install" from tcsh, but
> didn't get the permission flags straighten out.  I'll check this out
> again, though I think I need to investigate a bit.

You need to set umask when you unpack and build, not just when you 
install.


>>> ./configure --disable-mbcs
>
>> Why do you claim that is `default in FreeBSD 4.x'?
>
> All I know is that in FreeBSD ports math/R and on 4.x, --disable-mbcs
> had been required to get around with the broken MBCS library handling of
> FreeBSD.  So I followed the convention.

Ah, `convention' rather than default (R's configure does not set it).


>
> Many thanks for your help.
>
> // Kenji Rikitake
>
>

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