[R] Compiling R under Solaris

[Thomas Lumley]

On Thu, 14 Jan 1999, Caitlin Buck wrote:

> I am trying to compile R for Solaris 2.6 and am having problems.  I
> understand from the INSTALL file that I am not the first to struggle
> with this and that the problem probably relates to the version of make
> (or gmake) that I have.  Unfortunately, I don't know a) how to check
> which version I have or b) where to find other versions.
> 

You currently need GNU make, though this requirement should eventually go
away. Sun make doesn't work.

If you have a Sun system you may have GNU make available as "gmake". 

GNU make identifies itself with the -v or --version flag
  wompom% gmake -v
  GNU Make version 3.74, by Richard Stallman and Roland McGrath.
  Copyright (C) 1988, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95 Free Software Foundation,Inc.
  This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
  There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
  PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

If you don't have GNU make you can get precompiled binaries that install
it /usr/local (so you need the system administrators cooperation) from
http://sun.freeware.com/

You can get the source code from any GNU mirror site and compile it
yourself. These are listed at
	http://ftp.gnu.org/order/ftp.html


Thomas Lumley
Assistant Professor, Biostatistics
University of Washington, Seattle



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