[R] R Installation problem: 'make check' errors

[Fritz Roth]

Hi All,

OK...  so it looks like '--enable-shlib' option wasn't the problem, as I've 
now done:
'make distclean'
'configure'  [no options selected]
'make'
'make check'

and I get the same error on 'make check':
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../../bin/R --vanilla < base-Ex.R > base-Ex.Rout
make[4]: *** [base-Ex.Rout] Error 139
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following your advice, I did
'../../bin/R -d gdb'
and
'r --vanilla < base-Ex.R > base-Ex.Rout'
with the following results:

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[froth at lama R-1.3.1]$ cd tests/Examples/
[froth at lama Examples]$ ls
Makedeps  Makefile.in  base-Ex.R     base-Examples.ps
Makefile  all.Rdata    base-Ex.Rout
[froth at lama Examples]$ ../../bin/R -d gdb
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Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "i386-redhat-linux"...
(gdb) r --vanilla < base-Ex.R > base-Ex.Rout
Starting program: /home1/froth/R/src/R-1.3.1/bin/R.bin --vanilla < 
base-Ex.R > base-Ex.Rout
BUG IN DYNAMIC LINKER ld.so: ../sysdeps/i386/dl-machine.h: 380: 
elf_machine_rel: Assertion `! "unexpected dynamic reloc type"' failed!

Program exited with code 0177.
(gdb)
(gdb)

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after running 'make check' again to proceed further to the next error:

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../../bin/R --vanilla < mva-Ex.R > mva-Ex.Rout
make[4]: *** [mva-Ex.Rout] Error 139
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  I also tried running mva-Ex.R within gdb:

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(gdb) r --vanilla < mva-Ex.R > mva-Ex.Rout
Starting program: /home1/froth/R/src/R-1.3.1/bin/R.bin --vanilla < 
mva-Ex.R > mva-Ex.Rout

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
strcmp (p1=0x522e73 <Address 0x522e73 out of bounds>, p2=0x40010c27 "")
     at ../sysdeps/generic/strcmp.c:38
38      ../sysdeps/generic/strcmp.c: No such file or directory.
(gdb)
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unless anyone can suggest a simpler fix to these problems, I'll assume that 
RedHat Linux 6.2 is at fault as suggested earlier and try R installation 
again after an OS upgrade  (planned in the very near future anyway)

Thanks for your advice!
Fritz

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Harvard Medical School
Dept. of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
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