R devel - Jun 1998 - Snapshot won't configure on SunOS 5.3

R-crew,

   I'm trying to install the R-Snapshot which I downloaded a few hours
ago and I'm having a problem I can't trace.  My system is

 Sun SPARC, SunOS 5.3 : 1996
>From running ./configure:***************************************
loading cache ./config.cache
checking for a BSD compatible install... /opt/local/R/R-snapshot/etc/install-sh
-c
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking for bison... bison -y
checking for ar... ar
checking for ratfor... no
checking for perl... /usr/local/bin/perl
checking whether perl is perl 5... yes
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler (gcc  ) works... yes
checking whether the C compiler (gcc  ) is a cross-compiler... no
checking whether we are using GNU C... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for ranlib... (cached) ranlib
checking for g77... g77
checking for underscore after Fortran symbols... configure: error: Nothing
worked - cannot use FORTRAN
*******End of ./configure output *********************************************

And make will not work.

Has anyone else had trouble with a Sun install?


Previous versions have configured and complied beautifully, as
this partial screen summary for ./configure on R-0.61 shows:

# checking for ranlib... (cached) ranlib
# checking for ar... (cached) ar
# checking for lpr... (cached) lpr
# checking how to run the C preprocessor... (cached) gcc -E

I also updated R-0.61 to 0.61.2 and 0.61.3 without any problem. It seems
this line in the older configure file returned true:
if test -z "$FC"
  Since it skipped from ar to lpr without comment.


The new configure seems quite different.  Any pointers?

TIA,
  Jim

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On Thu, 4 Jun 1998, Jim Robison-Cox wrote:
>    I'm trying to install the R-Snapshot which I downloaded a few hours
> ago and I'm having a problem I can't trace.  My system is
> 
>  Sun SPARC, SunOS 5.3 : 1996
> 
> checking for g77... g77
> checking for underscore after Fortran symbols... configure: error: Nothing
worked - cannot use FORTRAN
> *******End of ./configure output
*********************************************
> 
> And make will not work.
> 
> 
> The new configure seems quite different.  Any pointers?
> 
It is very different -- we now _require_ a FORTRAN compiler.  It appears
that configure found g77 (which is the first one it looks for) and then
couldn't get it to work properly. You can edit the file config.site to
specify the name of your FORTRAN compiler (presumably you have f77).


Thomas Lumley
UW Biostatistics


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