[Rd] Unable to compile R 3.1.3 under GCC 4.1.2 (Red Hat 4.1.2-51)

[Titus Barik]

Hi,

Thanks for the replies. The version is indeed 3.1.1 (sorry about the
typo in the subject line). I was able to make progress and get R to
compile after setting --with-recommended-packages=no, since the Matrix
package was the only blocker.

I went back as far as R 2.15.3, which had the same issue.

Noticing mpicc was a good insight. I'm curious myself how it is that
mpicc is being selected. It only happens for the Matrix package; looking
through the compilation everything else is correctly using gcc -std=c99
as the output of configure suggests.

Probably what I will do is compile those recommended packages separately
as needed and ensure that they get the correct flags to ./configure when
doing so.

Thanks,

Titus

-- 
Titus Barik, PE <titus at barik.net>

On Mon, Sep 1, 2014, at 02:25 PM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> It seems you are using mpicc as your compiler for the Matrix package, 
> and have not selected C99 mode for it.  I don't know how you did that: 
> maybe you have CC set in your environment.  To get to that point you 
> will have compiled lots of R which uses C99 features.
> 
> There is no such thing as R 3.1.3 (in the subject), but this seems to be 
> R 3.1.1.
> 
> 
> On 01/09/2014 20:58, Titus Barik wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm unable to compile R under an HPC system (which like many HPC systems
> > doesn't always have the latest and greatest software). The version of
> > GCC is 4.1.2 under CentOS 5.7. Running ./configure gives the following
> > output:
> >
> > R is now configured for x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
> >
> >    Source directory:          .
> >    Installation directory:    /home/tbarik
> >
> >    C compiler:                gcc -std=gnu99  -I/home/tbarik/include
> >    Fortran 77 compiler:       gfortran  -g -O2
> >
> >    C++ compiler:              g++  -g -O2
> >    C++ 11 compiler:
> >    Fortran 90/95 compiler:    gfortran -g -O2
> >    Obj-C compiler:
> >
> >    Interfaces supported:      X11
> >    External libraries:        readline
> >    Additional capabilities:   NLS
> >    Options enabled:           shared BLAS, R profiling
> >
> >    Recommended packages:      yes
> >
> > which I think looks good (at least, -std=gnu99 appears to be present).
> > However, when I try make, I receive the following dump during
> > installation of the Matrix package:
> >
> > * installing *source* package 'Matrix' ...
> > ** package 'Matrix' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
> > ** libs
> > make[3]: Entering directory
> > `/state/partition1/tmp/RtmpCw7v7G/R.INSTALL3227fa892a3/Matrix/src'
> > mpicc -I/home/tbarik/src/R-3.1.1/include -DNDEBUG -DNTIMER
> > -I./SuiteSparse_config -I/usr/local/incl        ude    -fpic
> > -I/home/tbarik/include  -c CHMfactor.c -o CHMfactor.o
> > In file included from CHMfactor.h:4,
> >                   from CHMfactor.c:2:
> > Mutils.h: In function 'inv_permutation':
> > Mutils.h:270: error: 'for' loop initial declaration used outside C99
> > mode
> > In file included from Mutils.h:374,
> >                   from CHMfactor.h:4,
> >                   from CHMfactor.c:2:
> > t_sparseVector.c: In function 'dsparseVector_sub':
> > t_sparseVector.c:139: error: 'for' loop initial declaration used outside
> > C99 mode
> > In file included from Mutils.h:377,
> >                   from CHMfactor.h:4,
> >                   from CHMfactor.c:2:
> > t_sparseVector.c: In function 'isparseVector_sub':
> > t_sparseVector.c:139: error: 'for' loop initial declaration used outside
> > C99 mode
> > In file included from Mutils.h:380,
> >                   from CHMfactor.h:4,
> >                   from CHMfactor.c:2:
> > t_sparseVector.c: In function 'lsparseVector_sub':
> > t_sparseVector.c:139: error: 'for' loop initial declaration used outside
> > C99 mode
> > In file included from Mutils.h:383,
> >                   from CHMfactor.h:4,
> >                   from CHMfactor.c:2:
> > t_sparseVector.c: In function 'nsparseVector_sub':
> > t_sparseVector.c:139: error: 'for' loop initial declaration used outside
> > C99 mode
> > In file included from Mutils.h:386,
> >                   from CHMfactor.h:4,
> >                   from CHMfactor.c:2:
> > t_sparseVector.c: In function 'zsparseVector_sub':
> > t_sparseVector.c:139: error: 'for' loop initial declaration used outside
> > C99 mode
> > make[3]: *** [CHMfactor.o] Error 1
> > make[3]: Leaving directory
> > `/state/partition1/tmp/RtmpCw7v7G/R.INSTALL3227fa892a3/Matrix/src'
> > ERROR: compilation failed for package 'Matrix'
> > * removing '/home/tbarik/src/R-3.1.1/library/Matrix'
> > make[2]: *** [Matrix.ts] Error 1
> >
> > Any advice on what to do is greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Titus
> >
> >
> 
> 
> -- 
> Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
> Emeritus Professor of Applied Statistics, University of Oxford
> 1 South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3TG, UK
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