[R] Build Error on Opensolaris iconvlist

[Karun Gahlawat]

Prof Ripely,
Thanks. SUN gnu-iconv package should overwrite the sun version and so
it does. Apparently, it does not work. I built this library from gnu
source with gcc and now it configures and builds but fails on make
check for regressions.

This topic is touched in the manual with some 'blas' and 'lapack'
libraries. Not sure if these are related though. I am not sure either
where and what to get for this. Apologize as this is all new to me.

Here is the extract from make check logs..

running code in 'reg-tests-1.R' ...*** Error code 1
The following command caused the error:
LC_ALL=C SRCDIR=. R_DEFAULT_PACKAGES= ../bin/R --vanilla <
reg-tests-1.R > reg-tests-1.Rout 2>&1 || (mv reg-tests-1.Rout
reg-tests-1.Rout.fail && exit 1)
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `reg-tests-1.Rout'
Current working directory /opt/R-2.8.1/tests
*** Error code 1
The following command caused the error:
make reg-tests-1.Rout reg-tests-2.Rout reg-IO.Rout reg-IO2.Rout
reg-plot.Rout reg-S4.Rout  RVAL_IF_DIFF=1
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `test-Reg'
Current working directory /opt/R-2.8.1/tests
*** Error code 1
The following command caused the error:
for name in Examples Specific Reg Internet; do \
  make test-${name} || exit 1; \
done
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `test-all-basics'
Current working directory /opt/R-2.8.1/tests
*** Error code 1
The following command caused the error:
(cd tests && make check)
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `check'


On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Prof Brian Ripley
<ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Jan 2009, Karun Gahlawat wrote:
>
>> Uwe,
>> Sorry I missed it. I do have gnu iconv..
>> SUNWgnu-libiconv
>>
>> ls -lra /usr/lib/*iconv* | more
>> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root          14 Jan 23 21:23 /usr/lib/libiconv.so
>> -> li
>> bgnuiconv.so
>> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root          22 Jan 23 21:23
>> /usr/lib/libgnuiconv.so ->
>> ../gnu/lib/libiconv.so
>>
>> And hence the confusion..
>
> Did you tell R to use that one?  You need the correct header files set as
> well as the library, or you will get the system iconv.  (The header file
> remaps the entry point names.)
>
> Perhaps you need to study the R-admin manual carefully, which describes how
> to get the correct iconv.
>
>
>> On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Uwe Ligges
>> <ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Karun Gahlawat wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi!
>>>>
>>>> Trying to build R-2.8.1. while configuring, it throws error
>>>>
>>>> ./configure
>>>>
>>>> checking iconv.h usability... yes
>>>> checking iconv.h presence... yes
>>>> checking for iconv.h... yes
>>>> checking for iconv... yes
>>>> checking whether iconv accepts "UTF-8", "latin1" and "UCS-*"... no
>>>> checking for iconvlist... no
>>>> configure: error: --with-iconv=yes (default) and a suitable iconv is
>>>> not available
>>>>
>>>> I am confused.. sorry new to this..
>>>> I can see the iconv binary, headers and libs all in the standard
>>>> directory. Please help or redirect!
>>>
>>>
>>> Please read the documentation, the R Installation and Administration
>>> manuals
>>> tells you:
>>>
>>> "You will need GNU libiconv: the Solaris version of iconv is not
>>> sufficiently powerful. "
>>>
>>> Uwe Ligges
>>>
>>>
>>>> SunOS  5.11 snv_101b i86pc i386 i86pc
>>>>
>>>> CC: Sun Ceres C++ 5.10 SunOS_i386 2008/10/22
>
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