R help - Dec 2001 - install R-1.3.1 on Solaris 8

Dear All:

I tried to compile and install R-1.3.1 on Solaris 8,but never 
succeeded, Can you give me any suggestion?
I used 
./configure --with-x --x-includes=/usr/openwin/share/include/X11 \
--x-libraries=/usr/openwin/lib --with-f77 \
--with-tcl-config=/usr/local/lib --with-tk-config=/usr/local/lib
I noticed that ld used /usr/ccs/bin/ld(ld: Software Generation 
Utilities-Solaris-ELF (4. 0)). I changed in config.site
MAIN_LD=/usr/local/bin/ld(GNU ld version 2.9.1 (with BFD 2.9.1)
  Supported emulations:
   elf32_sparc)
but R always use /usr/ccs/bin/ld.

I put the log files of configure, make,make check on the 
http://www.math.sc.edu/~wu/, click R compile problem on Solaris 8.

Any suggestion are highly appreciated.

Thank you!

Shuyuan Wu
Tel: 803-777-9312(o)    
                     


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Wu Shuyuan <wu at math.sc.edu> writes:
> Dear All:
> 
> I tried to compile and install R-1.3.1 on Solaris 8,but never 
> succeeded, Can you give me any suggestion?
> I used 
> ./configure --with-x --x-includes=/usr/openwin/share/include/X11 \
> --x-libraries=/usr/openwin/lib --with-f77 \
> --with-tcl-config=/usr/local/lib --with-tk-config=/usr/local/lib
> I noticed that ld used /usr/ccs/bin/ld(ld: Software Generation 
> Utilities-Solaris-ELF (4. 0)). I changed in config.site
> MAIN_LD=/usr/local/bin/ld(GNU ld version 2.9.1 (with BFD 2.9.1)
>   Supported emulations:
>    elf32_sparc)
> but R always use /usr/ccs/bin/ld.
> 
> I put the log files of configure, make,make check on the 
> http://www.math.sc.edu/~wu/, click R compile problem on Solaris 8.
> 
> Any suggestion are highly appreciated.
You might want to exchange f77 with g77 there. Try that first.

Did you build the documentation? Without that, you are not likely to
make the checks succeed.

What you're seeing is a make check error, not a build error, so it
would be nice to know where it went wrong. The easiest way to do that
is to 

cd tests/Examples
../bin/R --vanilla < base-Ex.R

and then report the last few lines. 

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On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Wu Shuyuan wrote:
> Dear All:
>
> I tried to compile and install R-1.3.1 on Solaris 8,but never
> succeeded, Can you give me any suggestion?
> I used
> ./configure --with-x --x-includes=/usr/openwin/share/include/X11 \
> --x-libraries=/usr/openwin/lib --with-f77 \
> --with-tcl-config=/usr/local/lib --with-tk-config=/usr/local/lib
> I noticed that ld used /usr/ccs/bin/ld(ld: Software Generation
> Utilities-Solaris-ELF (4. 0)). I changed in config.site
> MAIN_LD=/usr/local/bin/ld(GNU ld version 2.9.1 (with BFD 2.9.1)
>   Supported emulations:
>    elf32_sparc)
> but R always use /usr/ccs/bin/ld.
It should.  GNU ld is not recommended on Solaris, AFAIK, and certainly
not with Sun's compiler (f77).

>
> I put the log files of configure, make,make check on the
> http://www.math.sc.edu/~wu/, click R compile problem on Solaris 8.
>
> Any suggestion are highly appreciated.
>
> Thank you!
>
> Shuyuan Wu
> Tel: 803-777-9312(o)
>
>
>
>
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