[R] Error in R-1.8.1 build

[Jim Lemon]

Hi,

Searchng the archives for the messages containing:

error & making & R-1.8
error & make & R-1.8

I found two possibly relevant messages. Both concerned compression routines, 
and the one reply that I could find indicated that the local libraries might 
be out of date or corrupt. I think these are the relevant libraries:

/usr/lib/libz.so.1
/usr/lib/libz.so.1.1.3
/usr/lib/libzvt.so.2.2.10
/usr/lib/libzvt.so.2
/usr/lib/libz.a
/usr/lib/libz.so

Building R-1.8.1 on:

RedHat v7.2
gcc v2.96

produces the following error messages:

make[4]: Entering directory `/usr/local/R-1.8.1/src/extra/zlib'
...
making infutil.d from infutil.c
make[4]: *** [infutil.d] Segmentation fault
make[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/R-1.8.1/src/extra/zlib'
make[3]: *** [R] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/R-1.8.1/src/extra/zlib'
make[2]: *** [R] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/R-1.8.1/src/extra'
make[1]: *** [R] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/R-1.8.1/src'
make: *** [R] Error 1

I suspect a type mismatch, but was unable to find it. The Makefile is so 
cryptic that I couldn't work out the compilation command and thus couldn't 
get more info. Thanks for any help.

Jim