R-beta: POSIX and regcomp on SGI-IRIX 5.3

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

"Matthew Kay" <mwkay at spud.me.wustl.edu> writes:

> 
> I looked through the R-help archives and I found a few tips concerning the
> problem. I tried them (ie: I installed readline-2.2, regex-0.12, rx-1.5, and
> edited ./Makeconf and ./src/include/Platform.h to use the regex libraries.) and
> R compiled and installed with no errors. (However, configure still didn't find
> regcomp and I edited Makeconf and Platform.h after running configure.) Now,
> when I type help() R crashes and dumps the core:
> 
> > help()
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> 

Not much to go on there. It might be helpful to perform an autopsy of
that core image. What kind of debugger have you got available?

-- 
   O__  ---- Peter Dalgaard             Blegdamsvej 3  
  c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics     2200 Cph. N   
 (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen   Denmark      Ph: (+45) 35327918
~~~~~~~~~~ - (p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk)             FAX: (+45) 35327907
-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-
r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html
Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe"
(in the "body", not the subject !)  To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch
_._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._