[R] RE: minor installation problems

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

Martyn Plummer <plummer at iarc.fr> writes:

> [Moved over from R-devel, because I think it belongs here - MTP]
> 
> I don't know about problem 1, but problem 2 is caused by you mixing
> libraries compiled with gcc and egcs. So you should either
> 1) Remove egcs-1.1 and any other bleeding edge stuff you have installed
>    and go back to a standard RedHat 5.2 installation, or
> 2) Upgrade to RedHat 6.0.
> 
> There is a known hack for this problem which involves preloading a small
> shared library containing __register_frame_info, __deregister_frame_info
> __unregister_frame_info as null functions. I wouldn't do that myself
> though.
> 

Um, I wonder how I've been running EGCS 1.1 for the last six months
then... I just put /home/sfe/pd/misc/EGCS/bin at the beginning of my
PATH. Isn't it more likely that Michael has an installation problem or
needs to compile g++/g77 along with gcc?

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