[R] R and glibc-2.1.1

Robert Burrows
Mon, 07 Jun 1999 12:38:15 -0000

Hello,

I recently upgraded my glibc from 2.0.7 to 2.1.1 and now I cannot get R to
start. I get

	R : Copyright 1999, The R Development Core Team
	Version 0.64.1  (May 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.

	Segmentation fault (core dumped)

>From core:

  GNU gdb 4.18
  Copyright 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
  		<snip>
  This GDB was configured as "i686-pc-linux-gnu"...

  "/usr/local/bin/R": not in executable format: File format not
recognized

  Core was generated by `/usr/local/lib/R/bin/R.binary'.
  Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
  #0  0x40188ab3 in ?? ()

This is with RedHat 5.1, kernel 2.2.1. I got glibc-2.1.1 from the GNU web
site and compiled it myself, then recompiled and installed R.

Any suggestions will be much appreciated.

TIA,

Robert Burrows
rbb at nebiometrics.com