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

[Prof Brian Ripley]

See the R-admin manual: this happens for certain broken versions of 
Solaris-sparc gcc.  If that is not the cause we would need to know much 
more about what you used to build R.

We do regularly test on Solaris 8, with gcc 3.3.3 and Forte 7.


On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, Adaikalavan Ramasamy wrote:

> 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.
> 
> Thank you.
> 
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