Hi all,
Have had a frustrating time trying to get R 2.5.1 running happily on
Solaris9/x86, the problems seem to stem mainly from libiconv
support. After a couple of hours of experimenting, I came across the
following combination, note that iconv (the program, but not the
library) exists in the Solaris base system, I've manually installed
the full GNU distribution in /usr/local/apps/libiconv-1.11 but not
in /usr/local yet.
CFLAGS="-I/usr/local/apps/libiconv-1.11/include -I/usr/local/include"
LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/apps/libiconv-1.11/lib -R/usr/local/apps/
libiconv-1.11/lib -L/usr/local/lib -R/usr/local/lib" ./configure --
prefix=/usr/local/apps/r-2.5.1 --with-libiconv-prefix=/usr/local/apps/
libiconv-1.11
Note that the option --with-libiconv-prefix=/usr/local/apps/
libiconv-1.11 won't get me past the configure phase by itself (fails
the iconv test), in fact as far as I can tell --with-libiconv-prefix
has no effect at all but I've been leaving it in just in case.
Anyway, with the environment variables CFLAGS and LDFLAGS set as
above, the process gets through configure and make successfully, but
fails 'make check' trying to do a conversion to "latin1"
> ## x is intended to be in latin1
> x <- "fa\xE7ile"
> Encoding(x)
[1] "unknown"
> Encoding(x) <- "latin1"
> x
[1]Error: unsupported conversion
Execution halted
ldd -s bin/exec/R confirms that R gets it's iconv from /usr/local/
apps/libiconv-1.11/lib/libiconv.so.2 as expected
ldd -s bin/exec/R
[snip]
find object=libiconv.so.2; required by bin/exec/R
search path=/usr/local/apps/libiconv-1.11/lib:/usr/local/lib:/
usr/local/apps/gcc-3.4.5/lib/gcc/i386-pc-solaris2.9/3.4.5 (RPATH
from file bin/exec/R)
trying path=/usr/local/apps/libiconv-1.11/lib/libiconv.so.2
libiconv.so.2 => /usr/local/apps/libiconv-1.11/lib/
libiconv.so.2
[snip]
I don't know what else to try. Anyone?
Regards,
--
Lucas Barbuto E: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
System Administrator T: +613 8344 1270
Department of CSSE
The University of Melbourne http://www.csse.unimelb.edu.au/
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