[R] R-2.12.0 problem on Solaris 10

Dr. David Kirkby david.kirkby at onetel.net
Wed Nov 10 00:07:08 CET 2010


On 11/ 9/10 10:30 PM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote:
> On 11/ 9/10 09:22 PM, Zhang,Jun wrote:
>> It's been a few days I cannot compile to get R-2.12.0 working at sparc
>> Solaris 10. Seems the R software installation is OK, but the
>> recommended package called Matrix stopped me, since I can finish the
>> installation with the configure option -with-recommended-packages=no.
>> I then run
>
> Is this a 32-bit or 64-bit build? Is it Sun Studio or gcc?
>
> There are issues with the R libraries when built with Sun Studio - they
> have relocations to read-only segments.

I meant the issues are with gcc - SunStudio is ok.

I would be nice to be able to build R with gcc though. I know the gcc compiler 
is inferior, but some systems don't have SunStudio. For a project like Sage, we 
have 100 packages, and R is the only one that needs SunStudio to build. (I'd 
rather build the whole of Sage with SunStudio, but there are too many GNUisms 
for that). So I might have to use two compilers, which is a real pain in the butt

Dave



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