[R] Problems installing R-2.4.1 on Solaris 11 x-86 from source: error in "gmake" after successful "configure"

[Prof Brian Ripley]

What is 'Solaris 11'?  According to www.sun.com, the latest Solaris 
version is 10, and my sysadmins have not heard of Solaris 11.

You seem to be missing the Solaris compilation tools, ar in this case.
In Solaris <= 10 they are in /usr/ccs/bin, not in the path by default.

On Wed, 31 Jan 2007, Octavio Tourinho wrote:

> Dear friends,
> I am trying to install R-2.4.1 from source on Solaris 11 x-86. 64 bits,

There is 32-bit x86 and 64-bit amd64 or x86_64.

> running on Sun Ultra-20 workstation, and using the SunStudio 11 compilers.
> I was able to "configure" R correctly, but received an error in "gmake", 
> aparently related to bzip2 which I have been unable to debug.
> The messages are listed below.
> The configure.log and configure.status files are attached.
>
> Any help would be sincerely appreciated.
>
> Octavio Tourinho
>
> =============================================
> R is now configured for i386-pc-solaris2.11
>
> Source directory:          .
> Installation directory:    /usr/local
>
> C compiler:                gcc -std=gnu99 -D__NO_MATH_INLINES -g -O2
> Fortran 77 compiler:       g77  -g -O2
>
> C++ compiler:              g++  -g -O2
> Fortran 90/95 compiler:    f95 -g
>
> Interfaces supported:      X11, tcltk
> External libraries:        readline
> Additional capabilities:   PNG, JPEG, NLS
> Options enabled:           shared BLAS, R profiling
>
> Recommended packages:      yes
>
> configure: WARNING: you cannot build DVI versions of the R manuals
> configure: WARNING: you cannot build PDF versions of the R manuals
> # gmake
> gmake[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/R-2.4.1/m4'
> gmake[1]: Nothing to be done for `R'.
> gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/R-2.4.1/m4'
> gmake[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/R-2.4.1/tools'
> gmake[1]: Nothing to be done for `R'.
> gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/R-2.4.1/tools'
> gmake[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/R-2.4.1/doc'
> gmake[2]: Entering directory `/usr/local/R-2.4.1/doc/html'
> gmake[3]: Entering directory `/usr/local/R-2.4.1/doc/html/search'
> gmake[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/R-2.4.1/doc/html/search'
> gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/R-2.4.1/doc/html'
> gmake[2]: Entering directory `/usr/local/R-2.4.1/doc/manual'
> gmake[2]: Nothing to be done for `R'.
> gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/R-2.4.1/doc/manual'
> gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/R-2.4.1/doc'
> gmake[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/R-2.4.1/etc'
> gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/R-2.4.1/etc'
> gmake[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/R-2.4.1/share'
> gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/R-2.4.1/share'
> gmake[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/R-2.4.1/src'
> gmake[2]: Entering directory `/usr/local/R-2.4.1/src/scripts'
> creating src/scripts/R.fe
> gmake[3]: Entering directory `/usr/local/R-2.4.1/src/scripts'
> gmake[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/R-2.4.1/src/scripts'
> gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/R-2.4.1/src/scripts'
> gmake[2]: Entering directory `/usr/local/R-2.4.1/src/include'
> config.status: creating src/include/config.h
> config.status: src/include/config.h is unchanged
> Rmath.h is unchanged
> gmake[3]: Entering directory `/usr/local/R-2.4.1/src/include/R_ext'
> gmake[3]: Nothing to be done for `R'.
> gmake[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/R-2.4.1/src/include/R_ext'
> gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/R-2.4.1/src/include'
> gmake[2]: Entering directory `/usr/local/R-2.4.1/src/extra'
> gmake[3]: Entering directory `/usr/local/R-2.4.1/src/extra/blas'
> gmake[4]: Entering directory `/usr/local/R-2.4.1/src/extra/blas'
> gmake[4]: `libRblas.so' is up to date.
> gmake[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/R-2.4.1/src/extra/blas'
> gmake[4]: Entering directory `/usr/local/R-2.4.1/src/extra/blas'
> /usr/local/R-2.4.1/lib/libRblas.so is unchanged
> gmake[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/R-2.4.1/src/extra/blas'
> gmake[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/R-2.4.1/src/extra/blas'
> gmake[3]: Entering directory `/usr/local/R-2.4.1/src/extra/bzip2'
> gmake[4]: Entering directory `/usr/local/R-2.4.1/src/extra/bzip2'
> gmake[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/R-2.4.1/src/extra/bzip2'
> gmake[4]: Entering directory `/usr/local/R-2.4.1/src/extra/bzip2'
> rm -f libbz2.a
> false cr libbz2.a blocksort.o bzlib.o compress.o crctable.o decompress.o 
> huffman.o randtable.o
> gmake[4]: *** [libbz2.a] Error 1
> gmake[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/R-2.4.1/src/extra/bzip2'
> gmake[3]: *** [R] Error 2
> gmake[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/R-2.4.1/src/extra/bzip2'
> gmake[2]: *** [R] Error 1
> gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/R-2.4.1/src/extra'
> gmake[1]: *** [R] Error 1
> gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/R-2.4.1/src'
> gmake: *** [R] Error 1
> ============================================================
>

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