[R] R compilation problem on Sun Solaris 2.5.1

[Yves Brostaux]

It finally worked !!! Thank you very much for your advice.

PS : I'm using gcc 3.2, even if I heard about a new working 3.2.3 version, 
I didn't wanted to spend too much time updating this one for unknown benefits.

At 15:04 13/05/03, you wrote:
>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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