Including missing headers is completely the correct fix, please submit the patches to the upstream author.
On 2012 Feb 06 (Mon) at 10:01:49 +0000 (+0000), Zi Loff wrote: :I managed to compile R-2.14.0 and .1 from source on OpenBSD 5.0 (i386). : :Make failed because that two of the tre source files require stdint.h :(for WCHAR_MAX definition) but don't include it. I managed to build R by :inserting : #include <stdint.h> :on src/extra/tre/tre-compile.c and src/extra/tre/tre-parse.c : :I know this is an ugly hack, and fiddling with the sources seldom is a :good idea, but it got the job done... : :There are some additional issues with the Cairo graphics device, :-pthread as a LDFLAG and some of the tests that configure runs, but I'm :still working on that. I'll share my findings when I have more concrete :answers (later today, hopefully). : : : :On 02/03/12 12:02, Richard Thornton wrote: :> Using OpenBSD 5 on an old sparc 64 sun blade, I am trying to compile R from :> source, downloaded from the cran-r website; :> The ./configure works, but make always fails. I realize that there is a R :> package available already but it is a 2008 version, and it has terrible :> graphics, anyone have a more recent port for sparc64? : -- One planet is all you get.
