[R] Unable to compile R-2.1.0

[Prof Brian Ripley]

This has been reported to R-bugs twice already (and also on the lists): 
it seems autoconf and FreeBSD are making different assumptions.

If you look in today's R-devel archive you will see the requests for 
information I set on the second report.

It seems no one using FreeBSD ever tested the alphas or betas of R 2.1.0.

On Mon, 6 Jun 2005 v.demartino2 at virgilio.it wrote:

> I downloaded the latest R-2.1.0 tarball from cran (the one of 18/4/05) to
> compile it under FreeBSD. Take into account that I compiled R-2.0.1 in the
> same machine and OS like a charme, flawlessly and at the very fiirst shot.
>
> Now with R-2.1.0, ./configure doesn't seem to say anything alarming but
> make stops. Here an extract of both ./configure and make:
>
> # ./configure
> ..................................
> R is now configured for i386-unknown-freebsd5.4
>
>  Source directory:          .
>  Installation directory:    /usr/local
>
>  C compiler:                gcc -D__NO_MATH_INLINES -g -O2
>  C++ compiler:              g++  -g -O2
>  Fortran compiler:          f77  -g -O2
>
>  Interfaces supported:      X11, tcltk
>  External libraries:        readline, BLAS(ATLAS)
>  Additional capabilities:   PNG, JPEG, iconv, MBCS, NLS
>  Options enabled:           R profiling
>
>  Recommended packages:      yes
>
> configure: WARNING: you cannot build info or html versions of the R manuals
>
>
> #make
> <SNIP>
> NLINES  -g -O2 -c util.c -o util.o
> gcc -I../../src/extra/zlib -I../../src/extra/bzip2 -I../../src/extra/pcre
>  -I. -I../../src/include -I../../src/include -I/usr/local/include -DHAVE_CONFIG_H
> -D__NO_MATH_INLINES  -g -O2 -c version.c -o version.o
> gcc -I../../src/extra/zlib -I../../src/extra/bzip2 -I../../src/extra/pcre
>  -I. -I../../src/include -I../../src/include -I/usr/local/include -DHAVE_CONFIG_H
> -D__NO_MATH_INLINES  -g -O2 -c vfonts.c -o vfonts.o
> f77   -g -O2 -c xxxpr.f -o xxxpr.o
> gcc -export-dynamic -L/usr/local/lib -o R.bin  Rmain.o  CConverters.o CommandLineArgs.o
> Rdynload.o Renviron.o RNG.o apply.o arithmetic.o apse.o array.o attrib.o
> base.o bind.o builtin.o character.o coerce.o colors.o complex.o connections.o
> context.o cov.o cum.o dcf.o datetime.o debug.o deparse.o deriv.o dotcode.o
> dounzip.o dstruct.o duplicate.o engine.o envir.o errors.o eval.o format.o
> fourier.o gevents.o gram.o gram-ex.o graphics.o identical.o internet.o iosupport.o
> lapack.o list.o logic.o main.o mapply.o match.o memory.o model.o names.o
> objects.o optim.o optimize.o options.o par.o paste.o pcre.o platform.o plot.o
> plot3d.o plotmath.o print.o printarray.o printvector.o printutils.o qsort.o
> random.o regex.o registration.o relop.o saveload.o scan.o seq.o serialize.o
> size.o sort.o source.o split.o sprintf.o startup.o subassign.o subscript.o
> subset.o summary.o sysutils.o unique.o util.o version.o vfonts.o xxxpr.o
> ../unix/libunix.a ../appl/libappl.a ../nmath/libnmath.a  -lf77blas -latlas
> -lg2c -lm  ../extra/zlib/libz.a ../extra/bzip2/libbz2.a ../extra/pcre/libpcre.a
> /usr/local/lib/libintl.so -Wl,-rpath -Wl,/usr/local/lib -lreadline -lm -liconv
> errors.o(.text+0x154b): In function `do_gettext':
> /tmp/R-2.1.0/src/main/errors.c:779: undefined reference to `__builtin_alloca'
> errors.o(.text+0x15fa):/tmp/R-2.1.0/src/main/errors.c:752: undefined reference
> to `__builtin_alloca'
> errors.o(.text+0x1652):/tmp/R-2.1.0/src/main/errors.c:760: undefined reference
> to `__builtin_alloca'
> errors.o(.text+0x16aa):/tmp/R-2.1.0/src/main/errors.c:770: undefined reference
> to `__builtin_alloca'
> errors.o(.text+0x1728):/tmp/R-2.1.0/src/main/errors.c:738: undefined reference
> to `__builtin_alloca'
> errors.o(.text+0x274d):/tmp/R-2.1.0/src/main/errors.c:829: more undefined
> references to `__builtin_alloca' follow
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop in /tmp/R-2.1.0/src/main.
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop in /tmp/R-2.1.0/src/main.
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop in /tmp/R-2.1.0/src.
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop in /tmp/R-2.1.0.
>
>
> What's the matter with it and what should I do next?
>
> VITTORIO
>
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