problems building on Solaris 7 (was [R] make check fails after base-Ex.R)

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

On Sat, 11 Mar 2000, Charles C. Berry wrote:

> Dear R-help,
> 
> 
> I tried to build the R-release version of R-1.0.0.

Do you mean the R-release version, period?  There have been problems
with the distribution of that.

> ./configure and make seemed to go just fine.
> 
> When I ran 'make check' from $RHOME, it dumped core apparently in the 
> 
> 	quit('no') 
> 
> on the last line of  base-Ex.R
> 
> I had been having some problems with a package I am building in that R
> would report with "Process R segmentation violation (core dumped)" upon
> q() in this and R-0.90.1 even though it seemed to do calculations that
> agree with an equivalent package compiled and run under S+3.4.
> 
> So I tried to mimic base-Ex.R, viz.
> (gdb) run
> Starting program: /usr/local/R/R-release/bin/R.X11
> [snip banner]
> 
> > library(mva)
> > q()
> Save workspace image? [y/n/c]: n
> 
> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> 0xfefe333c in __do_global_dtors_aux ()
>    from /usr/local/R/R-release/library/mva/libs/mva.so
> (gdb) 
> 
> ----------
> 
> FWIW, upon restarting R, loading mva, and setting a breakpoint at
> __do_global_dtors_aux, I determined that the segfault occurs in the
> third attempted 'step'

I assume that is somewhere deep in the exit code (it is not a public
routine, as its name shows). My guess is that it cannot unload shared
libraries.

> This also happens in R-0.90.1.
> 
> So what is wrong with my setup.
> 
> I have 
> 
> Solaris 7,
> gcc version 2.95.1 19990816 (release) w/ g77 (binary distrn from
> sunfreeware.com)
> /usr/ccs/bin/make (Sun)

We have no problems with Solaris 2.7 aka 7, gcc 2.95.2 (never tried 2.95.1,
which was current for only a very short while) built ourselves (on 2.6) and
GNU or Sun make.  On what version was your binary compiler distribution
built? That site has 2.95.2 for Solaris 7 currently (and emacs-20.4 even
though .6 is out!)  I would try that for a start (although I would build my
own).


> Version:
>  platform = sparc-sun-solaris2.7
>  arch = sparc
>  os = solaris2.7
>  system = sparc, solaris2.7
>  status = Patched
>  major = 1
>  minor = 0.0
>  year = 2000
>  month = February
>  day = 29
>  language = R

This indicates the R-release distribution during a phase when it was out of
date (and so actually unpatched).


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