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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 -std=gnu99 -I../../src/extra/zlib -I../../src/extra/bzip2 -I../../src/extra/pcre...

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

...? the builds have failed to complete in several different ways, most recently with relocation errors for libRblas.so. ############ I get that when trying to build R within Sage: http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/9040 ld.so.1: R: fatal: relocation error: R_AMD64_PC32: file /export/home/drkirkby/sage-4.4.2/spkg/build/r-2.10.1.p1/src/lib/libR.so: symbol _init: value 0x228000984acd does not fit There's some info about this problem at http://developers.sun.com/solaris/articles/about_amd64_abi.html where it is suggests -Kpic is used to build Position Independent Code (PIC) code. I'...