[R] Build on Solaris 8 gcc-3.1 fails make check

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

cberry at tajo.ucsd.edu writes:

> Dear R-help,
> 
> 
> I am trying to build R-1.5.1 on a Sun Blade 100 (sparc). 
> 
> It fails make check when var(1) returns NaN instead of NA.
> 
> Using gcc-2.95.3 from sunfreeware.com, the build succeeds and passes
> make check
> 
> I have:
> 
>  Solaris 8
>  gcc-3.1 (built on that machine from sources and installed in
>    /usr/local/gcc-3.1 with binaries symlink'ed to /usr/local/bin)
> 
> 
> A synopsis is at the bottom of this message.
> 
> The web page
>  
>         http://hacuna.ucsd.edu/Rbuild-Problem/
> 
> has these files from this attempt
> 
>     Makeconf               3k  
>     Makefile               4k  
>     Makefrag.cc            1k  
>     Makefrag.cxx           1k  
>     Makefrag.f77           1k  
>     R-build-session      140k  <<=== terminal output from session
>     base-Ex.Rout.fail    376k  <<== from /tests/Examples 
>     config.log           104k  
>     config.status         56k  
>     gcc-v--help.out       35k  <<== details about compiler
> 
> files not labelled '<<==' are from the top source dir.
> 
> A briefer synopsis is below.
> 
> Please cc replies to me - I subscribe to DIGEST form of R-help.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Chuck
> 
> p.s. On that same machine using gcc-2.95.3 from sunfreeware.com, the
> build succeeds and passes make check. Using gcc-3.1 from
> sunfreeware.com, it fails in the same way as decribed above.

Hmm... gcc-3.0.3 on Solaris 7 works OK for me (passes make check
anyway). Anyone else tried 3.1? I suspect that Brian would.

I trust that you made sure that you did a clean build and didn't get
libraries mixed up or something?

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