Of course. It was built for Solaris 2.7. (I did look at R-admin, but not carefully and thoroughly enough.)
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 -- -------------------------------------- Don MacQueen Environmental Protection Department Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Livermore, CA, USA 925-423-1062 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
