[R] RODBC compile error with R 2.4.1

[Prof Brian Ripley]

This is not a 'compile error' but an error from the configure script, 
probably a run error.  As it says

> See `config.log' for more details.

and then ask your local Linux guru what is broken locally.

This is neither an R nor an RODBC problem, and for what it is worth 
RODBC_1.1-7.tar.gz configures correctly on x86_64 Linux on FC5 and 
FC3, as well as various Debian versions (even with Debian's modified
unixODBC).


On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Matthew Dowle wrote:

>
> Hi All,
>
> I'm getting the following error,  could anyone help please?
>
> $ R CMD INSTALL RODBC_1.1-7.tar.gz
> * Installing *source* package 'RODBC' ...
> checking for gcc... gcc -std=gnu99
> checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
> checking whether the C compiler works... yes
> checking whether we are cross compiling... no
> checking for suffix of executables...
> checking for suffix of object files... o
> checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
> checking whether gcc -std=gnu99 accepts -g... yes
> checking for gcc -std=gnu99 option to accept ANSI C... none needed
> checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -std=gnu99 -E
> checking for egrep... grep -E
> checking for ANSI C header files... yes
> checking for sys/types.h... yes
> checking for sys/stat.h... yes
> checking for stdlib.h... yes
> checking for string.h... yes
> checking for memory.h... yes
> checking for strings.h... yes
> checking for inttypes.h... yes
> checking for stdint.h... yes
> checking for unistd.h... yes
> checking sql.h usability... yes
> checking sql.h presence... yes
> checking for sql.h... yes
> checking sqlext.h usability... yes
> checking sqlext.h presence... yes
> checking for sqlext.h... yes
> checking for library containing SQLTables... -lodbc
> checking for SQLLEN... yes
> checking for SQLULEN... yes
> checking for long... yes
> checking size of long... configure: error: cannot compute sizeof (long),
> 77
> See `config.log' for more details.
> ERROR: configuration failed for package 'RODBC'
> ** Removing '/usr/local/lib/R/library/RODBC'
> ** Restoring previous '/usr/local/lib/R/library/RODBC'
>
>> version
>               _
> platform       x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
> arch           x86_64
> os             linux-gnu
> system         x86_64, linux-gnu
> status
> major          2
> minor          4.1
> year           2006
> month          12
> day            18
> svn rev        40228
> language       R
> version.string R version 2.4.1 (2006-12-18)
>>
>
>
> Regards,
> Matthew
>
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