Prof. Ripley: I apologize for my lack of response. I just moved halfway across the US and have had little to no connectivity for the past two weeks. :(
Thanks to you and Rainer Hurling for fixing this. Eric Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > On Mon, 23 May 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Full_Name: Eric van Gyzen >> Version: 2.1.0 >> OS: FreeBSD 5.4 >> Submission from: (NULL) (152.3.22.33) >> >> >> R-2.1.0 fails to compile on the newest release of FreeBSD, complaining >> about >> undefined references to __builtin_alloca. On FreeBSD, alloca() is >> declared in >> stdlib.h, not alloca.h as the R sources expect. Therefore, >> HAVE_DECL_ALLOCA >> does not get set, so the R sources declare alloca() after it has >> already been >> #defined by stdlib.h. >> >> A possible fix is to modify the configure script to look for the >> declaration of >> alloca() in stdlib.h (perhaps after it fails to find it in alloca.h). > > > It is already supposed to, so it is not finding the declaration there > either. If you look up the definition of > > AC_CHECK_DECLS([alloca], , , [#include <alloca.h>]) > > it searches in stdlib.h. Can you please send us the appropriate part of > config.log? It may be that this is failing because alloca.h is not found > (but AC_FUNC_ALLOCA is making the same assumptions). > > Perhaps the easiest way out is to override the setting on FreeBSD: can > you please confirm that manually changing > > #define HAVE_DECL_ALLOCA 1 > > in config.h works? > >> This was previously reported in PR#7881. > > > So please don't open a new report on the subject! > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
