[R] Installing 2.4.0

[Prof Brian Ripley]

These are old compilers (2.95.3 is really old, much older than your OS).
Are they really built for Solaris 10?  The underlying problem in both 
cases seems to be a mismatch between your OS and your compiler, something 
discussed in the R-admin manual as a problem on Solaris.

I would suggest getting a current version of gcc for Solaris 10 and using 
that.  (www.freesunware.com has 3.4.6, and that works for us on Solaris 
8.)


On Tue, 21 Nov 2006, Denise Mauldin wrote:

>
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to install R 2.4.0 on a SunOS 5.10 Generic_118833-24 sun4v
> sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-T200 machine.  The machine has gcc version 3.3.2 and
> gcc version 2.95.3 20010315 (release).  When I try to compile using 3.3.2
> I get an error with signal.h included from dcigettext.c.  When I compile
> using gcc 2.95.3 I get an error with va_copy.
>
> "Undefined symbol va_copy first referenced in file connections.o
> ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors.
> No output written to R.bin
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status"
>
> A friend suggested this was an error with stdarg.h and so I searched
> through the gcc2.95.3 directories and found a version of it and tried to
> include it using the -I and -L arguments to gcc, but this results in the
> same error.  I've tried using both the R-2.4.0 (R-latest) and R-patched
> gzip source files.
>
> Is there any additional information that you need in order to
> help me?  What steps should I take to solve this problem?
>
> Thanks,
> Denise
>
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