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I'm trying to build R 2.10.1 on a Sun Blade 1000 running Solaris 10 (03/05 release). I've installed iconv 1.13.1 and used: CPPFLAGS="-I /export/home/drkirkby/sage-4.3.3.alpha0/local/include" (which is where iconv is) LDFLAGS= -R/export/home/drkirkby/sage-4.3.3.alpha0/local/lib -L/export/home/drkirkby/sage-4.3.3.alpha0/local/lib The build of R fails as below. gcc

Dear all, I just changed from linux to a solaris server and I'm having trouble building R from source. I can't use the binaries because I don't have a permission to write to /usr/local. I followed the online instructions regarding the configuration with readline and the GNU version of iconv: ./configure --prefix=/u/fox/binaries

There are a number of errors in the R manual about Solaris. http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-admin.html#Solaris 1) Firstly, Sun are now owned by Oracle, who bought them for $7 billion. 2) "(Recent Sun machines are Opterons (?amd64?) rather than ?x86?, but 32-bit ?x86? executables are the default.) " That's incorrect. All recent Sun workstations used *Intel* CPUs -