[R] FreeBSD installation problems

[Rainer Hurling]

On 21.10.2012 02:47 (UTC+2), J. Maxwell wrote:
> R Compiliing or installation failure on FreeBSD
> 9.0-RELEASE FreeBSD ; I386 box.
> 
> configuring with the default settings, no 'options' =>
> 
> ./configure

Is there any reason that you are not using the FreeBSD ports system, in
this case /usr/ports/math/R? It builds and installs just fine. I am
using it for years now.

In many cases it should be useful to enable the ports option LIBR to get
a R shared library and a dynamically linked R.

Hope this helps,
Rainer


>     ...
>     ...
>     ...
> 
>     checking whether gcc -std=gnu99 supports -c -o FILE.lo... yes
>     checking for gcc -std=gnu99 option to support OpenMP... -fopenmp
>     checking how to get verbose linking output from fc... configure:
> WARNING: compilation failed
> 
>     checking for Fortran 77 libraries of fc...
>     checking how to get verbose linking output from gcc -std=gnu99... -v
>     checking for C libraries of gcc -std=gnu99...  -L/usr/local/lib
> -L/usr/lib -lgcc_s
>     checking for dummy main to link with Fortran 77 libraries... none
>     checking for Fortran 77 name-mangling scheme... configure: error: in
> `/usr/local/src/R-2.15.1':
>     configure: error: cannot compile a simple Fortran program
>     See `config.log' for more details
> 
> jaymax-#393:# ls config.log
>     config.log
> 
> jaymax-#394:# wc config.log
>     3859   14227  118427 config.log
> 
> jaymax-#395:# tail -30 config.log
>     ...
>     ...
>     ...
>     #define HAVE_INTPTR_T 1
>     #define HAVE_UINTPTR_T 1
>     #define R_INLINE inline
>     #define SIZEOF_INT 4
>     #define INT_32_BITS 1
>     #define SIZEOF_LONG 4
>     #define SIZEOF_LONG_LONG 8
>     #define SIZEOF_DOUBLE 8
>     #define SIZEOF_LONG_DOUBLE 12
>     #define SIZEOF_SIZE_T 4
> 
>     configure: exit 1
> jaymax-#396:#
> 
> I then provided the compilers explicitly
>     ./configure cc=gcc47 F77=gfortran47 CXX=g++47 FC=gfortran47
> 
> which seemed to run to completion w/ 1 SNAFU
> 
>       R is now configured for i386-unknown-freebsd9.0
> 
>       Source directory:          .
>       Installation directory:    /usr/local
> 
>       C compiler:                gcc -std=gnu99  -g -O2
>       Fortran 77 compiler:       gfortran47  -g -O2
> 
>       C++ compiler:              g++47  -g -O2
>       Fortran 90/95 compiler:    gfortran47 -g -O2
>       Obj-C compiler:
> 
>       Interfaces supported:      X11
>       External libraries:        readline, ICU, lzma
>       Additional capabilities:   PNG, JPEG, TIFF, NLS, cairo
>       Options enabled:           shared BLAS, R profiling, Java
> 
>       Recommended packages:      yes
> 
>      configure: WARNING: inconsolata.sty not found: PDF vignettes and
> package manuals will not be rendered optimally
> 
> However,
> jaymax-#492:# make install
> 
>     installing doc ...
>     install: NEWS.rds: No such file or directory
>     *** Error code 71
> 
>     Stop in /usr/local/src/R-2.15.1/doc.
>     *** Error code 1
> 
>     Stop in /usr/local/src/R-2.15.1.
> 
> And
> 
>     jaymax-#493:# make check
> 
>     ../../bin/R: not found
>     *** Error code 127
> 
>     Stop in /usr/local/src/R-2.15.1/tests/Examples.
>     *** Error code 1
> 
>     Stop in /usr/local/src/R-2.15.1/tests.
>     *** Error code 1
> 
>     Stop in /usr/local/src/R-2.15.1/tests.
>     *** Error code 1
> 
>     Stop in /usr/local/src/R-2.15.1.
> 
> jaymax-#494:#
> 
> I am at a bit of a loss figuring out the problem here, the log file does
> not seem to give any info
> Need some direction/help
> 
> Thanks in advance.