[R] Installing Packages on an Athlon 64 Linux System

[Prof Brian Ripley]

But this is FC2, not FC3 (not released until tomorrow) and not SuSE.  gcc
3.3.3 and 64-bit builds are the default on FC2, and R build out of the 
box (unsuprising as it is one of our standard test platforms).

I have offered Martyn an RPM for FC2 on x86_64, but not had a reply.

On Sat, 6 Nov 2004, Liaw, Andy wrote:

> On our SLES8 for amd64 installation, GCC 3.2.x (forgot what x is) is the
> default, and does not support -mcpu=k8.  GCC 3.3.x is installed in
> /opt/gcc33, and does support that flag.
> 
> Andy
> 
> > From: Peter Dalgaard
> > 
> > rab <rab at nauticom.net> writes:
> > 
> > > 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
> > 
> > Well it doesn't. So what is -march=i386 -mcpu=i686 doing in the
> > CFLAGS?
> > 
> > Sounds like you are using a 386-compiled R in compatibility mode and
> > are getting bitten by the fact that your gcc is not a cross compiler.
> > Did you use Martyn's RPMs? If so, I'd try a local rebuild (look up the
> > docs for rpmbuild) of R from the SRPM.
> > 
> > Another option might be that you need to set up a 32 bit build
> > environment. I don't know FC3 but on SuSE you have the linux32 prefix
> > to configure &c. 
> > 
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