[R] Installing Packages on an Athlon 64 Linux System

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Sat, 6 Nov 2004, rab wrote:

> I installed FC 2 X86-64 on an Athlon 64 system. I then installed R 
> 2.0.0. It runs fine except when I try to install or update packages 
> using either "install.packages" or "update.packages". I get the 
> following types of errors:
> 
> gcc -I/usr/lib/R/include  -I/usr/local/include -D__NO_MATH_INLINES 
> -mieee-fp  -fPIC  -O2 -g -pipe -march=i386 -mcpu=i686 -c block.c -o block.o
> cc1: error: CPU you selected does not support x86-64 instruction set
> cc1: error: CPU you selected does not support x86-64 instruction set
> make: *** [block.o] Error 1
> ERROR: compilation failed for package 'gstat'
> ** Removing '/usr/lib/R/library/gstat'
> ** Restoring previous '/usr/lib/R/library/gstat'
>  
> How can I fix this?

How did you get  -pipe -march=i386 -mcpu=i686?  That was not put there by 
R, and is the problem.  If you did not build R from the sources on that 
machine, please do so -- if this was a binary install it is for the wrong 
architecture.

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