[Rd] FYI: issue with arpa/inet.h on SunOS 5.9 (old gcc?)

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Wed, 7 Nov 2007, Don MacQueen wrote:

> Of course. It was built for Solaris 2.7.
> (I did look at R-admin, but not carefully and thoroughly enough.)

Good to know (and I didn't expect you to know it was in the manual, was 
just pointing out where to look for further help).

>
> Thank you.
> -Don
>
> At 7:33 AM +0000 11/6/07, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
>> What OS was that compiler built for?  This happened when you had a version 
>> of gcc built for the wrong version of the OS, as gcc captures system 
>> headers.  (There's a warning about that in the R-admin manual.)
>> 
>> The 'report to' message is autogenerated by autoconf.
>> 
>> SunStudio 11 is a recent version of Sun's compilers, and much to be 
>> preferred to gcc 3.0.4 on that platform (and probably to any version of gcc 
>> there).
>> 
>> On Mon, 5 Nov 2007, Don MacQueen wrote:
>> 
>>> This just information of my experience installing R on SunOS 5.9
>>> today, not a request for help.
>>> (in case anyone cares, and if not, I apologize for the distraction)
>>> 
>>> I am building R 2.6.0 (patched; svn revision 43319, 2007-11-01) and
>>> encountered the problem described below.
>>> 
>>> I believe the problem is an old gcc (version 3.0.4, built some 5
>>> years ago), because the warnings do not occur when I specify
>>>    CC = cc
>>> in the environment before configuring, and building R succeeds.
>>> 
>>> Hence I'm mailing to r-devel instead of r-bugs, as suggested in the
>>> warning messages.
>>> 
>>> I don't have much information about the cc I used (I'm not the
>>> sysadmin of this or any Solaris machine), other than it resides in
>>> /opt/SUNWspro, and appears to be part of "Sun Studio 11", whatever
>>> that is.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> The messages from R's configure were:
>>> 
>>> configure: WARNING: arpa/inet.h: present but cannot be compiled
>>> configure: WARNING: arpa/inet.h:     check for missing prerequisite 
>>> headers?
>>> configure: WARNING: arpa/inet.h: see the Autoconf documentation
>>> configure: WARNING: arpa/inet.h:     section "Present But Cannot Be 
>>> Compiled"
>>> configure: WARNING: arpa/inet.h: proceeding with the preprocessor's result
>>> configure: WARNING: arpa/inet.h: in the future, the compiler will
>>> take precedence
>>> configure: WARNING:     ## ----------------------------------- ##
>>> configure: WARNING:     ## Report this to r-bugs at R-project.org ##
>>> configure: WARNING:     ## ----------------------------------- ##
>>> 
>>> And then the same set of warnings for
>>>   netdb.h
>>>   netinet/in.h
>>>   sys/socket.h
>>> 
>>> At the very end configure reports:
>>> 
>>> configure: WARNING: could not determine type of socket length
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Then, make fails with:
>>> 
>>> In file included from /usr/include/netinet/in.h:41,
>>>                  from /usr/include/netdb.h:98,
>>>                  from ../../../R-patched/src/main/platform.c:1586:
>>> /usr/include/sys/stream.h:307: parse error before "projid_t"
>>> make[3]: *** [platform.o] Error 1
>>> make[3]: Leaving directory `/apps/kosapps/R/R-2.6.0/build/src/main'
>>> make[2]: *** [R] Error 2
>>> make[2]: Leaving directory `/apps/kosapps/R/R-2.6.0/build/src/main'
>>> make[1]: *** [R] Error 1
>>> make[1]: Leaving directory `/apps/kosapps/R/R-2.6.0/build/src'
>>> make: *** [R] Error 1
>>> 
>> 
>> --
>> Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
>> Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
>> University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
>> 1 South Parks Road,                     +44 1865 272866 (PA)
>> Oxford OX1 3TG, UK                Fax:  +44 1865 272595
>
>
>

-- 
Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
1 South Parks Road,                     +44 1865 272866 (PA)
Oxford OX1 3TG, UK                Fax:  +44 1865 272595