Simon, I scanned the config.log, which is too voluminous to insert below, but it seems that gcc is still being looked for as the compiler. See the lines from config.log below. Mark
Thread model: posix gcc version 3.4.6 20060404 (Red Hat 3.4.6-9) configure:4824: $? = 0 configure:4831: gcc -V >&5 gcc: `-V' option must have argument configure:4834: $? = 1 configure:4857: checking for C compiler default output file name configure:4884: gcc -fast -unroll -wd188 -I/usr/local/include -L -L -L/usr/local/lib64 conftest.c >&5 gcc: unrecognized option `-wd188' cc1: error: unrecognized command line option "-fast" configure:4887: $? = 1 configure:4925: result: configure: failed program was: | /* confdefs.h. */ # Then the tail end of config.log r_cc_lo_rules_frag='' r_cc_rules_frag='' r_cxx_rules_frag='' r_objc_rules_frag='' ## ----------- ## ## confdefs.h. ## ## ----------- ## #define PACKAGE_NAME "R" #define PACKAGE_TARNAME "R" #define PACKAGE_VERSION "2.7.0" #define PACKAGE_STRING "R 2.7.0" #define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" #define PACKAGE "R" #define VERSION "2.7.0" #define R_PLATFORM "x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu" #define R_CPU "x86_64" #define R_VENDOR "unknown" #define R_OS "linux-gnu" #define Unix 1 #define R_ARCH "" configure: exit 77 On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 5:35 PM, Simon Urbanek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On May 29, 2008, at 5:01 PM, Mark Kimpel wrote: > > I am installing within my home folder, see the ./configure options. I've >> never had a permission problem before and, like I said, if I don't put all >> the Intel-specific flags in the ./configure, everything works fine. >> >> > This has nothing to do with the executable bit and/or permissions - this is > about the compiler rejecting your flags. Have a look in config.log that's > where you'll find out what the compiler didn't like (and the error clearly > tells you that ;)). > > Cheers, > Simon > > > On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 4:41 PM, Esmail Bonakdarian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> >> Mark Kimpel wrote: >>> >>> >>>> checking for gcc... gcc >>>> checking for C compiler default output file name... >>>> configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables >>>> See `config.log' for more details. >>>> >>>> >>> Are you running this as root? Or do you have the right >>> privileges for the install? >>> >>> The "cannot create executables" looks like a permission problem >>> >>> Esmail >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Mark W. Kimpel MD ** Neuroinformatics ** Dept. of Psychiatry >> Indiana University School of Medicine >> >> 15032 Hunter Court, Westfield, IN 46074 >> >> (317) 490-5129 Work, & Mobile & VoiceMail >> (317) 663-0513 Home (no voice mail please) >> >> ****************************************************************** >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel >> >> >> > -- Mark W. Kimpel MD ** Neuroinformatics ** Dept. of Psychiatry Indiana University School of Medicine 15032 Hunter Court, Westfield, IN 46074 (317) 490-5129 Work, & Mobile & VoiceMail (317) 663-0513 Home (no voice mail please) ****************************************************************** [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
