Re: [Rd] [R] Problem compiling in extra/xdr

2011-07-21 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Wed, 20 Jul 2011, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: 1) The current R-patched should compile src/extra/xdr on 32-bit Linux systems. 2) Longer-term or on a 64-bit platform the solution is to make use of libtirpc: you would need both this installed (common now) and its headers (unlikely). Then if y

Re: [Rd] [R] Problem compiling in extra/xdr

2011-07-20 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
1) The current R-patched should compile src/extra/xdr on 32-bit Linux systems. 2) Longer-term or on a 64-bit platform the solution is to make use of libtirpc: you would need both this installed (common now) and its headers (unlikely). Then if you arrange for /usr/include/tirpc to be in the C

Re: [Rd] [R] Problem compiling in extra/xdr

2011-07-18 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Mon, 18 Jul 2011, Allin Cottrell wrote: On Mon, 18 Jul 2011, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: 1) R-help is the wrong list: see the posting guide. I've moved this to R-devel. 2) A glibc system should not be compiling in that directory. glibc 2.14 is rather recent and NEWS does say * The RPC i

Re: [Rd] [R] Problem compiling in extra/xdr

2011-07-18 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
1) R-help is the wrong list: see the posting guide. I've moved this to R-devel. 2) A glibc system should not be compiling in that directory. glibc 2.14 is rather recent and NEWS does say * The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working but new programs cannot be l