R help - May 2003 - 1.7.0 installation problem

Hello,

I'm having a problem trying to upgrade from R 1.6.0 to 1.7.0 on our 
Suns.  We're running Solaris 8 and we're using gcc 3.2.3.  The problem
is
that I get a bunch of error messages about a missing subroutine 
Rdconv::fill during the "make" of 1.7.0, although I didn't have
this
missing subroutine problem back when I installed 1.6.0.  Can anyone suggest 
how I can fix this problem and get 1.7.0 to compile on our systems?  Thanks 
very much.

Best wishes,
Eric Evans
Cornell Phonetics Lab
Ithaca, NY, USA

On Fri, 16 May 2003, Eric Evans wrote:
> I'm having a problem trying to upgrade from R 1.6.0 to 1.7.0 on our 
> Suns.  We're running Solaris 8 and we're using gcc 3.2.3.  The
problem is
> that I get a bunch of error messages about a missing subroutine 
> Rdconv::fill during the "make" of 1.7.0, although I didn't
have this
> missing subroutine problem back when I installed 1.6.0.  Can anyone suggest
> how I can fix this problem and get 1.7.0 to compile on our systems?  Thanks
> very much.
This looks like a Perl problem.  fill is in Text::Wrap, so my guess is 
that there is a problem with your installation.  Could you please send us 
the output of perl --version and the exact error messages.  (We know the 
current Perl 5.8.0 works, so upgrading to that should solve the problem.)

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