[R] configure for R-0.65

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

"William D. McCoy" <wdmccoy at geo.umass.edu> writes:

> I am trying to compile R-0.65 on a Sparc 20.  I have gcc 2.7.2.2 and I 
> have SC4.0.  I used gcc to compile R-0.64.2 in July with no problems.
> Now when I run configure for R-0.65 I get the following message:
> 
> >checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works... no
> >configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler
> cannot create executables.
> 
> and then configure exits.  I had no such problem with any previous R
> configure script.  Any ideas?

a) make sure there is no config.cache or similar items floating
around.
b) look into config.log for clues, this will tell you the exact
command that failed and there's likely also a conftest.xxx file
around.  

..and watch out for stray environment variables and write protected
directories. 

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