On 06/23/10 11:08 PM, Mathew Fox wrote:> Dear all,
>
> I just changed from linux to a solaris server and I'm having trouble
> building R from source.
First, you might be better posting on r-devel. I know this seems unuual, and
installation problems are usually handled on the help or support lists, but R
appars to want to do things differently.
R seems problematic on Solaris though I have personally managed to build it
(just) on Solaris 10 SPARC. This has been on
* Solaris 10 03/05 - the first release of Solaris 10
* Solaris 10 05/09 (update 7)
* Solaris 10 update 8 - the latest release of Solaris 10
but some of the recommended modules are not building, so whilst 'make'
runs ok,
'make test /make check' fails.
R 10.2.1 is used as part of the Sage maths project. It's build with a
configuration file, the contents of which I've attached.
'SAGE_LOCAL' is a bit
like /usr/local, where things like iconv, readline etc are put. It's a
directory
off of a users home directory, so he/she can write there.
I doubt it is the reason, but I'm surprised you are trying to build with a
mixture of GNU and Sun compilers.
The setup which semi-works for me (R at least builds) is
R 2.10.1
iconv-1.13.1
readline-6.0
disabled ICU
gcc 4.4.1, gcc 4.4.4 have both been used.
In each case gcc is configured to use the Sun linker and the Sun assembler - not
the GNU ones. I would suspect a gcc issue if you have the GNU linker in
particular.
Configured with: /export/home/drkirkby/gcc-4.4.4/configure
--prefix=/usr/local/gcc-4.4.4-multilib --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran
--with-gmp=/usr/local/gcc-4.4.4-multilib
--with-mpfr=/usr/local/gcc-4.4.4-multilib --disable-nls
--enable-checking=release --enable-werror=no --enable-multilib
--with-system-zlib --enable-bootstrap --with-gnu-as
--with-as=/usr/local/binutils-2.20/bin/as --without-gnu-ld
--with-ld=/usr/ccs/bin/ld
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.4.4 (GCC)
R is now configured for sparc-sun-solaris2.10
Source directory: .
Installation directory: /export/home/drkirkby/sage-4.4.4.alpha1/local
C compiler: gcc -std=gnu99
-I/export/home/drkirkby/sage-4.4.4.alpha1/local/include
-L/export/home/drkirkby/sage-4.4.4.alpha1/local/lib/
Fortran 77 compiler: sage_fortran -g -O2
C++ compiler: g++ -g -O2
Fortran 90/95 compiler: sage_fortran -g -O2
Obj-C compiler:
Interfaces supported: X11, tcltk
External libraries: readline, BLAS(ATLAS), LAPACK(generic)
Additional capabilities: PNG, JPEG, TIFF, NLS
Options enabled: shared R library, R profiling, Java
Recommended packages: yes
configure: WARNING: you cannot build DVI versions of the R manuals
configure: WARNING: you cannot build DVI versions of all the help pages
configure: WARNING: you cannot build PDF versions of the R manuals
configure: WARNING: you cannot build PDF versions of all the help pages
make[2]: Entering directory
`/export/home/drkirkby/sage-4.4.4.alpha1/spkg/build/r-2.10.1.p2/src'
'sage_fortran' is an script which invokes the GNU fortran compiler. I
wish Sage
did not do that, but it does.
I've noticed a few minor errors in the R manual for Solaris, and have posted
these once to r-help and twice to r-devel, and so far have had little feedback,
other than to post them to r-devel when I posted first to r-help.
There's a couple of R bug-releated things in Sage
Solaris 10 on SPARC
There's a build log:
http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/mpatel/trac/8306/r-2.10.1.p2.log
http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/9201
OpenSolaris on x64
http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/9040
If you manage to get any further, please let us know.
If any serious R developer needs access to a SPARC, I can arrange access on a 16
core Sun T5240. Drop me a private email.
Dave
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