[R] Installation help

Thu Jul 26 16:55:21 CEST 2001

Leslea,

Turns out I did this just last week ...

It is imperative that your LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable have
the Sun compilers. I have attached my config.site file -- which has
the optimization levels turned up pretty high (4 out of 5) for both
the cc and f90 compilers. For whatever reason, I left the c++ optimization
at 2 ...

We have a lot of the GNU libraries (readline -- which is necessary for
the command-line editing/history to be operational, and makeinfo -- which
is necessary to create the manuals in both "info" and .html ... ) as well
as some of the other necessary libraries (netCDF)  in a separate area
called    /contrib/[lib,include]   , so the config.site file reflects this.
For us, this is also where I installed R ... /contrib/R-1.3.0/bin/R    is
slinked to /contrib/bin/R   and /contrib/bin is in everyones PATH.

The exact sequence I used was:

./configure --prefix=/contrib/R-1.3.0 --enable-R-profiling --with-readline --with-x --cache-file=/dev/null
make
make install
make install-dvi
make install-pdf

because our version of makeinfo is out-of-date, I did not make the info versions
of the manuals, nor the html version. The problem is, the html versions are featured
prominently in the help.start() widget.

By specifying cache-file=/dev/null  you are guaranteed to actually use the current
config.site, not the config.cache version ...

Good luck,

Tim

> Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 12:36:02 -0600
> From: Leslea J. Lehoucq <ljlehou at sandia.gov>
> To: R-help at hypatia.math.ethz.ch
> Cc: ljlehou at sandia.gov
> Subject: [R] Installation help
>
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to compile R using the Sun WorkShop 6.0 (Forte) compilers.
> I don't think I am having a problem with the compilers, but instead with
>
> figuring out how to modify the R configuration to use non-Gnu compilers.
>
> I found in your documentation that one should modify the config.site
> file
> to change compilers, compiler flags, library paths, etc.  I made
> modifications
> in this file, but the configure script still seems to be relying on the
> Gnu
> compilers rather than the compilers I've specified.  It picks up my
> changes
> to the fortran compiler (using f77 instead of g77), but ignores my
> specification
> of the cc compiler rather than gcc.  Since I couldn't use config.site to
> fix
> my problem, I configured with whatever the configure script was giving
> me,
> and then went into the Makeconf file to change compiler, library paths,
> and
> other flags.  I have made some progress in compiling (i.e. when I run
> gmake I am getting the right compilers, paths, and flags), but my build
> is
> failing at a certain point.
>
> Do you know of anyone who has compiled R with the Solaris WorkShop 6.0
> (Forte) compilers?  Pointers would be greatly appreciated.
>
> I am attaching my config.site file, and the output from running
> configure
> (config.out). Additionally, I am attaching the output from running gmake
>
> (make.out).
>
> Thanks,
>
>     Leslea J. Lehoucq
>     Sandia National Labs
>     Organization 8950
>     Computational Sciences and Mathematics Research
>     Phone: (505) 844-1972
>     Fax:     (505) 845-7442
>
>
>

## Tim Hoar, Associate Scientist              email: thoar at ucar.edu     ##
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