[R] seg fault with mclust

[Aboubakar Maitournam]

> Peter Dalgaard BSA wrote:
>
> > Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> writes:
> >
> > > On 31 Oct 2001, Andy Jacobson wrote:
> > >
> > > >         I'm experiencing a segmentation fault when trying to load
> > > >         mclust.so from mclust-1.1-4.  I'm using R-1.3.1 on RedHat 6.2,
> > > >         and `gcc --version` reports "egcs-2.91.66".
> > >
> > > Standard problem: the Fortran on that system is broken.  It works with
> > > gcc 2.95.3 or gcc 3.0.2, for example.  Avoid unreleased compilers put out
> > > by RedHat!
> > >
> > > If this is a problem I can make available a known working mclust.so for
> > > RedHat 6.2.
> >
> > (Actually, I think egcs-2.91.66 aka EGCS 1.1.2 *was* released by
> > someone responsible, it's just buggy...)
> >
> > Beware that this is not the only one! Several other packages also fail
> > to load in the same way. When 1.4.0 comes out, builds of R itself will
> > fail with stock 6.2. (Unless someone can figure out a workaround,
> > which hardly seems worth the effort. F2c is a workaround, btw, but it
> > is not standard with RH.)
> >
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> Effectively many packages present the same problems as mclust, for ex the package
> permax.  It's  Dr Gentleman who was helped me to solve the problem  because I have
> installed by
> radically using Mandrake instead of RedHat. So now I haven't any problem of
> segmentation
> fault with mclust, permax .and all is correct on Mandrake......
>
> Aboubakar Maitournam.

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