[R] trouble compiling R on Irix

[ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]

On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Liaw, Andy wrote:

> Dear R-help,
>
> I'm trying to compile R-1.4.1 on Irix, and run into the following error when
> making R.bin:
>
> The linker (ld32) complained that "gzeof", "gzgetc", "gztell", and "gzseek"
> are unresolved symbols in connection.o.  Are these supposed to be in libz.a?

Yes (or libz.so).

> My suspicion is that maybe the libz.a on this system is outdated.  Any
> hints?

Seems pretty unlikely.  We test for >= 1.1.3, and that dates from 1998 and
does contain those symbols.  It seems more likely that the library is
corrupt.

It is highly recommended to use zlib 1.1.4 for security reasons, so
I suggest replacing libz.a with that version.

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