[R] RODBC compile error with R 2.4.1

[J Dougherty]

Matthew,

You don't seem to say what linux release you are using,  They can't very well 
help you without that information.  Not all releases are equal.

JWD

On Wednesday 03 January 2007 03:49, 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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