[R] R installation problems...

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Diego Kuonen wrote:

> Peter Dalgaard BSA wrote:
> >
> > Is this still RedHat 6.0? Have you considered an upgrade?
> > I wouldn't be too surprised if e.g. glibc had an error affecting dynamic
> > loading in that particular version.
>
> With regard to Martyn Plummer's recent posting (thanks 2 Martyn 4 this),
> I just updated to gcc 2.96-69 and glibc 2.2-9 from Red Hat, but I run
> exactly into the same error messages. What's strange is that the
>
>   make check
>
> works without any problems! Moreover, I get plenty of
>
>   warning: nothing can be pasted after this token

Those are just warnings.  I am convinced that the R code was right
(according to C99 at least) but I don't think the gcc maintainers have
been.

Could you please try R-patched.  This has a workaround for this, and as
1.2.1 is due next week, we would be happy to know if the warnings go away.
Also, you will get a better R using R-patched.

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But don't trust RH7.0 either!

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