[R] R compilation problem on Sun Solaris 2.5.1

[Prof Brian Ripley]

I think both indicate a problem with your zlib installation.  Please try 
rebuilding (from scratch) with --without-zlib (which will use R's internal 
version of zlib).

I hope you do really have 3.2 and not 3.2.1 or 3.2.2 (which don't work 
under Sparc).

On Tue, 13 May 2003, Yves Brostaux wrote:

> Dear members,
> 
> Always the same compilation problem. I'm still stuck with my old 
> Sun/UltraSparc workstation running Solaris 2.5.1 while installing R.
> 
> I downloaded and installed following required and recommanded programs 
> before installing R : perl 5.8.0, readline 4.3, gzip 1.3.5, bzip 1.02, zlib 
> 1.1.4, make 3.80, jpeg 6b, libpng 1.2.4 and gcc 3.2.
> 
> This time, I downloaded and unpacked R-patched.tgz to /usr/src and ran
>  > ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
>  > make
> 
> Some time ago, during make execution, I got following error with R 1.7.0 :
> 
> initializing class and method definition now... done
> Error in gzfile (file, "wb"): unable to open connection
> In addition: Warning message:
> cannot open compressed file 'usr/share/src/R-1.7.0/library/methods/R/all.rda'
> Execution halted
> 
> Now with R patched, I get :
> 
> dumping R code in package 'methods'
> initializing class and method definition now... done
> make[4]: *** [../../../library/methods/R/all.rda] Bus error (core dumped)
> make[4]: Leaving directory 'usr/share/src/R-patched/src/library/methods'
> make[3]: *** [all] Error 2
> make[3]: Leaving directory 'usr/share/src/R-patched/src/library/methods'
> make[2]: *** [R] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory 'usr/share/src/R-patched/src/library/'
> make[1]: *** [R] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory 'usr/share/src/R-patched/src/'
> make: *** [R] Error 1
> 
> So the problem seems to be this 'all.rda' file. Anybody have any idea about 
> what going on here ?
> 
> 

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