[R] R-0.99 installation on UNIX

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, jens wrote:

> > Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 13:03:35 +0100
> > From: jens <jniesch at gwdg.de>
> >
> > I have trouble to install R on  Sparc Sun Solaris 2.6.
> > make returns the error message:
> > Undefined symbol 		first referenced in file
> > d_lg10				../appl/libappl.a(uncmin.o)
> > d_sign				../appl/libappl.a(dpoco.o
> >
> > Anybody can help me out?
>
> Try installing the current version, 0.99.0, which does a better
> job of finding the right libraries. If that fails come back to us
> with a listing of Makeconf in the top-level build directory,
> and details of the compilers you used.
>
> --
> Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
> Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
> University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
> 1 South Parks Road,                     +44 1865 272860 (secr)
> Oxford OX1 3TG, UK                Fax:  +44 1865 272595
>
> I tried the R-0.99.0 version and got the following for make
>
> Undefined symbol 		first referenced in file
> i_len				xxxpr.o
> d_sign				../appl/libappl.a(dpoco.o)
>
> The compilers used are
> C: gcc version 2.81
> FORTRAN: f2c (from the gnu download packet f2c-1993_04_28_tar.gz)

That is really ancient!  I suggest you install gcc-2.95.2, including g77,
if you do not have the Sun compilers.  You will find life much easier with
a real Fortran compiler.

> The Makeconf reads:
>
> PACKAGE = R
> VERSION = 0.99.0
>
> AR = ar
> AWK = gawk
> BLAS = blas.o
> CC =
> gcc
> CFLAGS = -g -O2
> CPICFLAGS = -fPIC
> CPPFLAGS =
> DEFS =
> -DHAVE_CONFIG_H
> DLLFLAGS =
> DVIPS = false
> FC =
> FFLAGS =
> FLIBS =

That's wrong. You need -lf2c there, and possibly -L/path/to/it.  I would
have expected -lm too, but you have that in LIBS, I see, which may well
suffice.  Try setting FLIBS in config.site, or just alter Makeconf and see
if the compilation succeeds (and you will need to alter it in etc/Makeconf
too).

--
Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
1 South Parks Road,                     +44 1865 272860 (secr)
Oxford OX1 3TG, UK                Fax:  +44 1865 272595


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