[R] make check on Solaris 8 fails due to plot

[Peter Dalgaard]

"Adaikalavan Ramasamy" <ramasamy at cancer.org.uk> writes:

> Dear all,
> 
> I am having trouble trying to install R-1.8.1 on a Sun Solaris 8
> (Generic_108528-23 version) machine. The configuration was successful but
> make check fails. I traced the the problem to the plot() function.
> 
> > 1 + 1
> [1] 2
> > capabilities()
>     jpeg      png    tcltk      X11    GNOME     libz http/ftp  sockets
>     TRUE    FALSE     TRUE     TRUE    FALSE     TRUE     TRUE     TRUE
>   libxml     fifo   cledit  IEEE754    bzip2     PCRE
>     TRUE     TRUE     TRUE     TRUE     TRUE     TRUE
> > plot( 1:10 )
> Bus Error
> 
> and R terminates to the shell prompt. I have searched the archives with no
> success. Can anyone kindly help me fix the problem or at least show me how
> to get more information about the error.

AFAIR, some gcc versions could cause this due to incorrect code
generation. (See the platform notes in the Admin manual - sec'n B.7.3
to be specific.)

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