R devel - Aug 1999 - bug: R says "Floating exception" on DEC-Alpha w/OSF1 (PR#252)

Dear R Development Core Team,

I've been trying to install R ver. 0.64.0 on a
Dec-Alpha machine w/OSF1.

A couple of things go wrong.

After I type "make", the installation process
bombs while trying to compile the R.binary.
It reports the following:

     f77   -o ../../bin/R.binary {*** for brevity, I've deleted the
filenames printed here ***}
     ld:  ../unix/libunix.a(system.o): main: multiply defined
     fort: Severe: Failed while trying to link.

I got around this by adding the "-nofor_main" option to the 
compile statement in the Makefile in ../src/main directory.
Thus, make issues the command:
     f77  -nofor_main -o ../../bin/R.binary {*** again, deleted printed
filenames ***}
That allowed the compilation to complete smoothly.

However, when I tried to run R, I got the following result:
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> R
ARGUMENT '' __ignored__

R : Copyright 1999, The R Development Core Team
Version 0.64.0  (April 8, 1999)

R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
Type    "?license" or "?licence" for distribution details.

R is a collaborative project with many contributors.
Type    "?contributors" for a list.

Type    "demo()" for some demos, "help()" for on-line help,
or
        "help.start()" for a HTML browser interface to help.
Type    "q()" to quit R.

Floating exception (core dumped)
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So, I tried it with the debugger dbx and got this output:
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> R --debugger dbx
dbx version 3.11.8
Type 'help' for help.


"system.c" not defined or not active
(dbx) run

R : Copyright 1999, The R Development Core Team
Version 0.64.0  (April 8, 1999)

R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
Type    "?license" or "?licence" for distribution details.

R is a collaborative project with many contributors.
Type    "?contributors" for a list.

Type    "demo()" for some demos, "help()" for on-line help,
or
        "help.start()" for a HTML browser interface to help.
Type    "q()" to quit R.

signal Floating point exception at   [InitArithmetic:5 +0x17c,0x120018ddc]      
Source not available
(dbx) quit
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Any ideas what might be wrong and how I can get around it?

By the way, I use R on my PC without any glitches.
I'm impressed with the work you have done.

Thanks for providing such useful software,
-Mike

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> Dear R Development Core Team,
> I've been trying to install R ver. 0.64.0 on a
> Dec-Alpha machine w/OSF1.
Can you please try the current R-devel snapshot instead?
Also, can you please use the function bug.report(), or provide detailed
information on what exactly you did and your environment is?

-kh
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