R help - Mar 2007 - Problem installing R onto Solaris 2.10 system - need advice!!!!!

Dear R-Help friends,

I am unable to get the latest version of R (2.4.1) to compile on my solaris 10 
system - has anybody else experienced this problem and are you able to offer me 
any advice? 

I appreciate your time, many thanks,

Jenny Barnes


Here are my CURRENT specifications:

platform       sparc-sun-solaris2.10     
arch           sparc                     
os             solaris2.10               
system         sparc, solaris2.10        
status                                   
major          2                         
minor          3.1                       
year           2006                      
month          06                        
day            01                        
svn rev        38247                     
language       R                         
version.string Version 2.3.1 (2006-06-01)



~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Jennifer Barnes
PhD student: long range drought prediction 
Climate Extremes Group
Department of Space and Climate Physics
University College London
Holmbury St Mary 
Dorking, Surrey, RH5 6NT
Tel: 01483 204149
Mob: 07916 139187
Web: http://climate.mssl.ucl.ac.uk

Dear Andrew and R-help,

Here is the error message that we got when trying to install R v2.4 (which we 
tried to install before this newer version 2.4.1 - I'm afrid I didn't
save the
error message from the latest attempt with the new version):

configure
make
...
...
...

f90: CODE: 0 WORDS, DATA: 0 WORDS
gcc -G -L/usr/local/lib -o stats.so init.o kmeans.o  ansari.o bandwidths.o
chisq
sim.o d2x2xk.o fexact.o kendall.o ks.o  line.o smooth.o  prho.o swilk.o 
ksmooth
.o loessc.o isoreg.o Srunmed.o Trunmed.o  dblcen.o distance.o
hclust-utils.o  nl
s.o  HoltWinters.o PPsum.o arima.o burg.o filter.o  mAR.o pacf.o starma.o
port.o
 family.o sbart.o bsplvd.o bvalue.o bvalus.o loessf.o ppr.o qsbart.o 
sgram.o si
nerp.o sslvrg.o stxwx.o  hclust.o kmns.o  eureka.o stl.o portsrc.o
-L../../../..
/lib -lRblas  -lg2c -lm -lgcc_s
mkdir ../../../../library/stats/libs
building package 'datasets'
mkdir ../../../library/datasets
mkdir ../../../library/datasets/R
mkdir ../../../library/datasets/data
Error in dyn.load(x, as.logical(local), as.logical(now)) :
        unable to load shared library
'/tmp/R-2.4.0/library/stats/libs/stats.so'
:
  ld.so.1: R: fatal: relocation error: file
/tmp/R-2.4.0/library/stats/libs/stat
s.so: symbol __i_abs: referenced symbol not found
Execution halted
*** Error code 1

Many thanks,

Jenny
>
>Hi Jenny,
>
>advice: try posting the error message accompanying the failure to
>compile.
>
>Cheers
>
>Andrew
>
>On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 09:19:24AM +0000, Jenny Barnes wrote:
>> Dear R-Help friends,
>> 
>> I am unable to get the latest version of R (2.4.1) to compile on my
solaris
10 
>> system - has anybody else experienced this problem and are you able to
offer
me 
>> any advice? 
>> 
>> I appreciate your time, many thanks,
>> 
>> Jenny Barnes
>> 
>> 
>> Here are my CURRENT specifications:
>> 
>> platform       sparc-sun-solaris2.10     
>> arch           sparc                     
>> os             solaris2.10               
>> system         sparc, solaris2.10        
>> status                                   
>> major          2                         
>> minor          3.1                       
>> year           2006                      
>> month          06                        
>> day            01                        
>> svn rev        38247                     
>> language       R                         
>> version.string Version 2.3.1 (2006-06-01)
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> Jennifer Barnes
>> PhD student: long range drought prediction 
>> Climate Extremes Group
>> Department of Space and Climate Physics
>> University College London
>> Holmbury St Mary 
>> Dorking, Surrey, RH5 6NT
>> Tel: 01483 204149
>> Mob: 07916 139187
>> Web: http://climate.mssl.ucl.ac.uk
>> 
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>
>-- 
>Andrew Robinson  
>Department of Mathematics and Statistics            Tel: +61-3-8344-9763
>University of Melbourne, VIC 3010 Australia         Fax: +61-3-8344-4599
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Jennifer Barnes
PhD student: long range drought prediction 
Climate Extremes Group
Department of Space and Climate Physics
University College London
Holmbury St Mary 
Dorking, Surrey, RH5 6NT
Tel: 01483 204149
Mob: 07916 139187
Web: http://climate.mssl.ucl.ac.uk