R devel - Jul 2007 - Problem building R with Sun Studio Compiler on SLES 9 SP3

In a previous thread I had problems on openSuse 10.2 building R with
optimisation and discovered that if I wanted
optimisation I need to turn on

-fstore -fsimple1 (the first is to force storage on some Fortran routines , the
second is to ensure IEEE arithmetic,
with some optimisation).

That worked for my desktop. The real problem is to work on our servers (Opterons
running SLES9SP3)

Make works fine but make check fails in

base-Ex.R  on IO, specifically from base-Ex.Rout.fail:
>
> if(capabilities("fifo")) {
+   zz <- fifo("foo", "w+")
+   writeLines("abc", zz)
+   print(readLines(zz))
+   close(zz)
+   unlink("foo")
+ }
Warning in fifo("foo", "w+") : cannot create fifo
'foo', reason 'Input/output error'
Error in fifo("foo", "w+") : unable to open connection
Execution halted


Does anybody know what I need to do to get this fifo capability turned on?



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Len Zaifman
Systems Manager, Supercomputing Systems
Centre for Computational Biology
Hospital for Sick Children
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