On Wed, 7 Nov 2007, Don MacQueen wrote: > Of course. It was built for Solaris 2.7. > (I did look at R-admin, but not carefully and thoroughly enough.)
Good to know (and I didn't expect you to know it was in the manual, was just pointing out where to look for further help). > > Thank you. > -Don > > At 7:33 AM +0000 11/6/07, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: >> What OS was that compiler built for? This happened when you had a version >> of gcc built for the wrong version of the OS, as gcc captures system >> headers. (There's a warning about that in the R-admin manual.) >> >> The 'report to' message is autogenerated by autoconf. >> >> SunStudio 11 is a recent version of Sun's compilers, and much to be >> preferred to gcc 3.0.4 on that platform (and probably to any version of gcc >> there). >> >> On Mon, 5 Nov 2007, Don MacQueen wrote: >> >>> This just information of my experience installing R on SunOS 5.9 >>> today, not a request for help. >>> (in case anyone cares, and if not, I apologize for the distraction) >>> >>> I am building R 2.6.0 (patched; svn revision 43319, 2007-11-01) and >>> encountered the problem described below. >>> >>> I believe the problem is an old gcc (version 3.0.4, built some 5 >>> years ago), because the warnings do not occur when I specify >>> CC = cc >>> in the environment before configuring, and building R succeeds. >>> >>> Hence I'm mailing to r-devel instead of r-bugs, as suggested in the >>> warning messages. >>> >>> I don't have much information about the cc I used (I'm not the >>> sysadmin of this or any Solaris machine), other than it resides in >>> /opt/SUNWspro, and appears to be part of "Sun Studio 11", whatever >>> that is. >>> >>> >>> The messages from R's configure were: >>> >>> configure: WARNING: arpa/inet.h: present but cannot be compiled >>> configure: WARNING: arpa/inet.h: check for missing prerequisite >>> headers? >>> configure: WARNING: arpa/inet.h: see the Autoconf documentation >>> configure: WARNING: arpa/inet.h: section "Present But Cannot Be >>> Compiled" >>> configure: WARNING: arpa/inet.h: proceeding with the preprocessor's result >>> configure: WARNING: arpa/inet.h: in the future, the compiler will >>> take precedence >>> configure: WARNING: ## ----------------------------------- ## >>> configure: WARNING: ## Report this to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ## >>> configure: WARNING: ## ----------------------------------- ## >>> >>> And then the same set of warnings for >>> netdb.h >>> netinet/in.h >>> sys/socket.h >>> >>> At the very end configure reports: >>> >>> configure: WARNING: could not determine type of socket length >>> >>> >>> Then, make fails with: >>> >>> In file included from /usr/include/netinet/in.h:41, >>> from /usr/include/netdb.h:98, >>> from ../../../R-patched/src/main/platform.c:1586: >>> /usr/include/sys/stream.h:307: parse error before "projid_t" >>> make[3]: *** [platform.o] Error 1 >>> make[3]: Leaving directory `/apps/kosapps/R/R-2.6.0/build/src/main' >>> make[2]: *** [R] Error 2 >>> make[2]: Leaving directory `/apps/kosapps/R/R-2.6.0/build/src/main' >>> make[1]: *** [R] Error 1 >>> make[1]: Leaving directory `/apps/kosapps/R/R-2.6.0/build/src' >>> make: *** [R] Error 1 >>> >> >> -- >> Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ >> University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) >> 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) >> Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 > > > -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
