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

[Roger Bivand]

On Mon, 5 Feb 2007, Octavio Tourinho wrote:

> Dear friends,
> I am trying to install R-2.4.1 from source on Solaris 11 x-86_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 "make", 
> aparently related to bzip2 which I have been unable to debug.
> The messages are listed below.
> The configure.log and configure.site and teh terminal output with the 
> error message files are attached.

If you read your site settings *carefully*, you will see that at least 
some are not prefaced by <tag>=. They will then not be recognised and 
inserted where needed, leading to chaos. Please go through your site 
settings once again and correct them. Here is an example that just will 
not work:

## Header file search directory ('-IDIR') and any other miscellaneous
## options (such as defines) for the C preprocessor and compiler.
## If unset defaults to '-I/usr/local/include', with '-I/sw/include'
## prepended on systems using Fink with root '/sw'.
## CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include/readline
-I/usr/sfw/include" 

but you also have:

## The command which runs the C++ compiler.  It not specified, configure
## uses the values of the environment variables 'CXX' or 'CCC' if set,
## and then looks under the names 'c++', 'g++', 'gcc', 'CC', 'cxx', and
## 'cc++' (in that order).
CXX="/opt/SUNWspro/bin/CC -xarch=amd64"



> 
> Any help would be sincerely appreciated, as I have exausted my debugging 
> resources.  I believe that there is a problem with the configure script 
> in dealing with my particular setup.
> 
> Octavio Tourinho
> 
> 

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