[R] building R 1.7.0 with gcc 3.2.3 on Solaris

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Fri, 9 May 2003, Paul Gilbert wrote:

> With gcc 3.2.3 on SunOS 5.8 and R 1.7.0, configure fails for me unless I 
> set LDFLAGS ( LDFLAGS=-L/apps/asd/unix/gnu/gcc/3.2.3/SunOS5.8/lib ). 

It works here with gcc installed in /usr/local/lib.  

> With that set it appears that configure succeeds (i.e. no error messages 
> on the console), but config.log contains messages
> 
> configure:4099: checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C
> configure:4160: gcc  -c -g -O2 -I/usr/local/include conftest.c >&5
> In file included from configure:4124:
> /usr/include/sys/stat.h:258: syntax error before "blksize_t"
> /usr/include/sys/stat.h:262: syntax error before '}' token
> /usr/include/sys/stat.h:318: syntax error before "blksize_t"
> /usr/include/sys/stat.h:319: conflicting types for `st_blocks'
> /usr/include/sys/stat.h:259: previous declaration of `st_blocks'
> /usr/include/sys/stat.h:322: syntax error before '}' token
> configure:4163: $? = 1
> configure: failed program was:
> | #line 4106 "configure"
> | /* confdefs.h.  */
> |
> | #define PACKAGE_NAME "R"
> | #define PACKAGE_TARNAME "R"
> | #define PACKAGE_VERSION "1.7.0"
> | #define PACKAGE_STRING "R 1.7.0"

No such entries here.

Those errors are in the stat structure, following a section

#if !defined(_XOPEN_SOURCE) && !defined(_POSIX_C_SOURCE) || \
        defined(__EXTENSIONS__)

Do you have any of those defined?

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