[Rd] Problem installing MCMCpack on SPARC Solaris 10

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Thu, 10 Feb 2011, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

> There are lots of problems with MCMCpack's C++: the only way (short of a 
> major rewrite) that you will get it to compile on Solaris is to use g++ (and 
> even that needs corrections).
>
> The maintainers seem deaf to reports of the issues.
>
> And please note what the posting guide says about where to send questions 
> about non-R programming issues.

Sorry, I omitted 'in contributed packages'.  And PLEASE don't post 
twice.

The patch I needed on x86 Solaris was

diff -ru tests32/MCMCpack/src/algorithm.h MCMCpack/src/algorithm.h
--- tests32/MCMCpack/src/algorithm.h    Mon Jan 31 17:28:11 2011
+++ MCMCpack/src/algorithm.h    Sun May 16 19:15:39 2010
@@ -45,6 +45,11 @@
  #include "scythestat/matrix_random_access_iterator.h"
  #endif

+#undef DO
+#undef DS
+#undef SO
+#undef SS
+


>
> On Wed, 9 Feb 2011, Zhang,Jun wrote:
>
>> Hi list,
>>    I tried to install MCMCpack to R-2.12.0, got the following error,
>> R CMD INSTALL MCMCpack_1.0-9.tar.gz
>> ..........
>> CC -m64 -library=stlport4 -I/apps/sparcv9/R-2.12.0/lib/R/include 
>> -DSCYTHE_COMPILE_DIRECT -DSCYTHE_DEBUG=0 -DHAVE_TRUNC -DHAVE_IEEEFP_H 
>> -I/opt/csw/include    -KPIC  -g -c MCMCSVDreg.cc<http://MCMCSVDreg.cc> -o 
>> MCMCSVDreg.o
>> "error.h", line 598: Error: The function "abort" must have a prototype.
>> "distributions.h", line 550: Error: The function "trunc" must have a 
>> prototype.
>> "distributions.h", line 550: Error: log1p is not a member of file level.
>> "distributions.h", line 566: Error: The function "trunc" must have a 
>> prototype.
>> "distributions.h", line 566: Error: log1p is not a member of file level.
>> "distributions.h", line 2177: Error: sqrt is not a member of file level.
>> 6 Error(s) detected.
>> make: *** [MCMCSVDreg.o] Error 2
>> ERROR: compilation failed for package 'MCMCpack'
>> * removing '/apps/sparcv9/R-2.12.0/lib/R/library/MCMCpack'
>> 
>> root at dqssun4 local# which cc
>> /opt/solstudio12.2/bin/cc
>> root at dqssun4 local# which R
>> /apps/sparcv9/R-2.12.0/bin/R
>> 
>> The configure script for the successful R installation is the following,
>> CC="cc -xc99 -m64 -xarch=sparcvis2"
>> CPPFLAGS="-I/opt/csw/include"
>> CFLAGS="-xcode=abs64 -xlibmieee -xtarget=ultra3 -xarch=sparcvis2"
>> F77=f95
>> CXX="CC -m64 -library=stlport4"
>> FC=$F77
>> FFLAGS="-m64 -xarch=sparcvis2"
>> FCFLAGS=$FFLAGS
>> LDFLAGS="-L/opt/csw/lib/sparcv9 -L/opt/solstudio12.2/prod/lib/v9"
>> export CC CPPFLAGS CFLAGS F77 FFLAGS CXX CXXFLAGS FC FCFLAGS LDFLAGS
>> ./configure --prefix=/apps/sparcv9/R-2.12.0 
>> --with-tcl-config=/opt/csw/lib/tclCo
>> nfig.sh<http://nfig.sh> --with-tk-config=/opt/csw/lib/tkConfig.sh 
>> --disable-nls
>> 
>> Jun Zhang
>>
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>
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> 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)
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-- 
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