[R] Building R on Interix 6.0

[Oakeley, Edward]

Dear all,

I have been trying to build R-2.5.1 on the Interix-6.0 Unix subsystem
that ships with Vista and everything looks fine during the configure
except towards the end when "sed" throws an error: 

sed: 1: ""s/\*/\\\*/g"": invalid command code "

A few lines later I then get:

./configure: : bad substitution

So I guess sed is trying to do something and because it failed the rest
of the configure process breaks. It would be very helpful to get R to
build (or at least the "standalone" bits) because then I can link it in
to perl scripts running on Interix that make use of R libraries.

If anyone can make a suggestion I would really appreciate it as the
alternative (cygwin) is REALLY slow compared to Interix.

The output from the ./configure command is listed below in case I missed
something.

Thanks

Ed

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checking build system type... i586-pc-interix6.0
checking host system type... i586-pc-interix6.0
loading site script './config.site'
loading build specific script './config.site'
checking for pwd... /bin/pwd
checking whether builddir is srcdir... yes
checking for working aclocal... found
checking for working autoconf... found
checking for working automake... found
checking for working autoheader... found
checking for gawk... gawk
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep
checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking for bison... bison -y
checking for ar... ar
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /bin/install -c
checking for sed... /bin/sed
checking for less... /bin/less
checking for perl... /usr/local/bin/perl
checking whether perl version is at least 5.004... yes
checking for dvips... no
checking for tex... no
checking for latex... no
checking for makeindex... no
checking for pdftex... no
checking for pdflatex... no
checking for makeinfo... /usr/local/bin/makeinfo
checking whether makeinfo version is at least 4.7... yes
checking for unzip... /usr/contrib/bin/unzip
checking for zip... /usr/contrib/bin/zip
checking for gzip... /usr/local/bin/gzip
checking for firefox... no
checking for mozilla... no
checking for netscape... no
checking for galeon... no
checking for kfmclient... no
checking for opera... no
checking for gnome-moz-remote... no
checking for open... no
checking for acroread... no
checking for acroread4... no
checking for xpdf... no
checking for gv... no
checking for gnome-gv... no
checking for ggv... no
checking for kghostview... no
checking for open... no
checking for gpdf... no
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables... 
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking whether gcc needs -traditional... no
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for g77... g77
checking whether we are using the GNU Fortran 77 compiler... yes
checking whether g77 accepts -g... yes
checking for g++... g++
checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes
checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes
checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... g++ -E
checking whether __attribute__((visibility())) is supported... no
checking whether gcc accepts -fvisibility... no
checking whether g77 accepts -fvisibility... no
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether we are using the GNU Objective C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking whether g++ can compile ObjC++... yes
checking for Objective C++ compiler... g++
checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed
checking for ld used by gcc... /opt/gcc.3.3/i586-pc-interix3/bin/ld
checking if the linker (/opt/gcc.3.3/i586-pc-interix3/bin/ld) is GNU
ld... yes
checking for /opt/gcc.3.3/i586-pc-interix3/bin/ld option to reload
object files... -r
checking for BSD-compatible nm... /bin/nm -B
checking how to recognise dependent libraries... unknown
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking dlfcn.h usability... yes
checking dlfcn.h presence... yes
checking for dlfcn.h... yes
checking the maximum length of command line arguments... 262144
checking command to parse /bin/nm -B output from gcc object... ok
checking for objdir... .libs
checking for ranlib... (cached) ranlib
checking for strip... strip
checking if gcc static flag  works... yes
checking if gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... no
checking for gcc option to produce PIC... -fPIC
checking if gcc PIC flag -fPIC works... yes
checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... yes
checking whether the gcc linker (/opt/gcc.3.3/i586-pc-interix3/bin/ld)
supports shared libraries... no
checking dynamic linker characteristics... no
checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes
checking if libtool supports shared libraries... no
checking whether to build shared libraries... no
checking whether to build static libraries... yes
configure: creating libtool
appending configuration tag "CXX" to libtool
checking for ld used by g++... /opt/gcc.3.3/i586-pc-interix3/bin/ld
checking if the linker (/opt/gcc.3.3/i586-pc-interix3/bin/ld) is GNU
ld... yes
checking whether the g++ linker (/opt/gcc.3.3/i586-pc-interix3/bin/ld)
supports shared libraries... no
sed: 1: ""s/\*/\\\*/g"": invalid command code "
checking for g++ option to produce PIC... -fPIC
checking if g++ PIC flag -fPIC works... yes
checking if g++ supports -c -o file.o... yes
checking whether the g++ linker (/opt/gcc.3.3/i586-pc-interix3/bin/ld)
supports shared libraries... no
checking dynamic linker characteristics... no
checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes
appending configuration tag "F77" to libtool
checking if libtool supports shared libraries... no
checking whether to build shared libraries... no
checking whether to build static libraries... yes
checking for g77 option to produce PIC... -fPIC
checking if g77 PIC flag -fPIC works... yes
checking if g77 supports -c -o file.o... yes
checking whether the g77 linker (/opt/gcc.3.3/i586-pc-interix3/bin/ld)
supports shared libraries... no
checking dynamic linker characteristics... no
checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes
./configure: : bad substitution