[Rd] Problem building R with Sun Studio Compiler

[Prof Brian Ripley]

The R-admin manual did tell you not to do that!

   When using the Sun compilers do @emph{not} specify @option{-fast}, as
   this disables @acronym{IEEE} arithmetic and @command{make check} will
   fail.

That was for Solaris and SunStudio 11, but I presume these are basically 
the same compilers.  (--fast has been a no-no for as long as I have been 
using R on Solaris, ca 10 years.)

On Mon, 16 Jul 2007, Len Zaifman wrote:

> I would like to Build R-2.5.1 on OpenSUSE 10.2 using the SunStudio 12
> compilers(http://developers.sun.com/sunstudio/index.jsp)
>
> R builds and passes make check fine without optimising. However, when I try to compile with optimisation turned on
> (-fast) the build gets stuck in an infinite loop  at the following point:
>
> Sun_Studio/sunstudio12/bin/cc -m64 -shared -Kpic   -m64 -fPIC  -o grDevices.so chull.o devNull.o devPicTeX.o devPS.o
> devQuartz.o init.o
> mkdir -p -- ../../../../library/grDevices/libs
> make[5]: Leaving directory `/export/home/leonardz/ccb/HPF/support/R-2.5.1/ss12/R-2.5.1/src/library/grDevices/src'
> make[4]: Leaving directory `/export/home/leonardz/ccb/HPF/support/R-2.5.1/ss12/R-2.5.1/src/library/grDevices/src'
>
> R is running at this point and will run for as long as I do not kill it. 
> If I compile without -fast the next line in the make is:
>
> make[3]: Entering directory `/export/home/leonardz/ccb/HPF/support/R-2.5.1/ss12/R-2.5.1/src/library/graphics'
>
> and the entire package builds and make check verifies correctly. Any 
> ideas on why this is happening?
>
> The build works fine for gcc as well.
>
>

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