R devel - Jun 2004 - make fails with utf-8 locale, RH9 (PR#6958)

Hi,

I have an RH9 box (gcc (GCC) 3.2.2, perl 5.8.0, make 3.79.1).  My
locale is

LANG="et_EE.UTF-8"

I do:

$ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
...
$ make
...
make[4]: Entering directory `/home/otoomet/a/R-1.9.0/src/library/stats4'
dumping R code in package 'stats4'
Error in structure(c(unlist(lapply(list(...), unclass))), class =
c("POSIXt",  :
        couldn't find function "unlist"
Execution halted
...

make stops with similar error messages later.

when I say now

$ LANG="" make

everything works OK.

I can supply further information if you consider the problem worth of
investigating/mentioning in docs.

Thanks for R!

Ott

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 (o_         (*_         (O_         (o< -!  
//\         //\         //\         //\      
V_/_        V_/_        V_/_        V_/_     
					     
standard    drunken     shocked     noisy    
penguin     penguin     penguin     penguin

After some tracking down, this is not due to utf-8 at all.  It happens in
et_EE as well, and it does not happen in en_GB.UTF-8.  It is due to the
position of z in the sort in that locale (before u).

In detail, it is down to how make interprets

RSRC = $(srcdir)/R/*.R $(srcdir)/R/$(R_OSTYPE)/*.R

in ${R_HOME}/src/library/base/Makefile, and we need to force LC_COLLATE=C
there.

On Tue, 8 Jun 2004 otoomet@econ.dk wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have an RH9 box (gcc (GCC) 3.2.2, perl 5.8.0, make 3.79.1).  My
> locale is
> 
> LANG="et_EE.UTF-8"
> 
> I do:
> 
> $ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
> ...
> $ make
> ...
> make[4]: Entering directory
`/home/otoomet/a/R-1.9.0/src/library/stats4'
> dumping R code in package 'stats4'
> Error in structure(c(unlist(lapply(list(...), unclass))), class =
c("POSIXt",  :
>         couldn't find function "unlist"
> Execution halted
> ...
> 
> make stops with similar error messages later.
> 
> when I say now
> 
> $ LANG="" make
> 
> everything works OK.
> 
> I can supply further information if you consider the problem worth of
> investigating/mentioning in docs.
> 
> Thanks for R!
> 
> Ott
> 
> 
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Hi,

 | Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 18:46:58 +0100 (BST)
 | From: Prof Brian Ripley <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk>

 | After some tracking down, this is not due to utf-8 at all.  It happens in
 | et_EE as well, and it does not happen in en_GB.UTF-8.  It is due to the
 | position of z in the sort in that locale (before u).

you are right, Estonian alphabet looks like 

... o p q r s z t u v... AFAIR.

Thanks for a quick answer :-)

Ott

 | In detail, it is down to how make interprets
 | 
 | RSRC = $(srcdir)/R/*.R $(srcdir)/R/$(R_OSTYPE)/*.R
 | 
 | in ${R_HOME}/src/library/base/Makefile, and we need to force LC_COLLATE=C
 | there.

I don't know enough to be sure that this is a related problem, but it 
looks similar...

I just compiled 1.9.1 on sparc-sun-solaris, and ld would do

collect2: ld terminated with signal 11 [Segmentation Fault], core dumped

in ./configure.  This is because LC_CTYPE was set to C.  If I deleted 
that line, leaving LC_CTYPE at its standard setting of 
"en_CA.ISO8859-1", ld worked fine.  If I try to compile a simple
program
with LC_CTYPE=C, it works fine with

$ gcc prog.c

but ld breaks if I do

$ gcc prog.c -lm

Anyways, I'm not sure whether this is an R problem, or an autoconf 
problem, or what, but I thought I would try here first...

Thanks.