[R] Install problem(s)

[Peter Dalgaard]

Steve Greenfield <greenfield at vt.edu> writes:

> I am trying to install R onto an Altix system running SuSE Enterprise
> Linux 9 SP3 with SGI ProPack 4 SP3.  I end up with this error no matter
> what I try.  Any suggestions on how to proceed would be appreciated!

Doesn't look nice. 

Question/ideas:

What is you compiler toolchain? (Versions of C compiler, Fortran
compiler, etc.) Altix'en appear to be Itanium systems; if so, then
there's not a lot of experience to go around.

Are you doing a clean build? It is usually a good idea to build in a
separate build directory, so that you don't get sources and compiled
files mixed up. 
 
You could check out R-2.4.0-patched. One or two potential buffer
overruns were caught in 2.4.0 and they might be important on Itanium.

> -----
> 
> gcc -shared -L/opt/local/lib -o methods.so do_substitute_direct.o init.o
> methods_list_dispatch.o slot.o class_support.o tests.o
> ../../../../library/methods/libs/methods.so is unchanged
> make[5]: Leaving directory
> `/usr/local/src/R-2.4.0/src/library/methods/src'
> make[4]: Leaving directory
> `/usr/local/src/R-2.4.0/src/library/methods/src'
> make[4]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/R-2.4.0/src/library/methods'
> dumping R code in package 'methods'
> (null)Saving namespace image ...
>  *** caught (null) ***
> address (nil), cause '(null)'
> 
> Traceback:
>  0: (null)
>  0: (null)
>  0: (null)
>  0: (null)(null)(null)(null)
>  0: (null)
>  0: (null)
> aborting ...
> make[4]: *** [../../../library/methods/R/methods.rdb] Error 139
> make[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/R-2.4.0/src/library/methods'
> make[3]: *** [all] Error 2
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/R-2.4.0/src/library/methods'
> make[2]: *** [R] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/R-2.4.0/src/library'
> make[1]: *** [R] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/R-2.4.0/src'
> make: *** [R] Error 1
> 
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