Russ, This is a known issue with Sun Studio on Linux and was fixed by Brian Ripley in January. If you download R-patched.tar.gz from here:
ftp://ftp.stat.math.ethz.ch/Software/R/ then it should work for you. Martyn On Mon, 2010-02-22 at 13:11 -0600, rt wrote: > I am trying to compile R on Linux using SunStudio. Configure flags are > mostly as suggested in the R install guide. > > CC=/opt/sun/sunstudio12.1/bin/suncc > CFLAGS="-g -xc99 -xlibmil -xlibmieee" > MAIN_CFLAGS=-g > SHLIB_CFLAGS=-g > CPPFLAGS="-I. -I/opt/sun/sunstudio12.1/prod/include > -I/opt/sun/sunstudio12.1/prod/include/cc" > CPPFLAGS+="-I/opt/sun/sunstudio12.1/prod/include/cc/sys > -I/usr/local/include" > F77=/opt/sun/sunstudio12.1/bin/sunf95 > FFLAGS="-g -O -libmil " > SAFE_FFLAGS="-g -libmil" > CPICFLAGS=-Kpic > FPICFLAGS=-Kpic > SHLIB_LDFLAGS=-shared > LDFLAGS=-L/opt/sun/sunstudio12.1/lib/386 > CXX=/opt/sun/sunstudio12.1/bin/sunCC > CXXFLAGS="-g -xlibmil -xlibmieee" > CXXPICFLAGS=-Kpic > SHLIB_CXXLDFLAGS="-G -lCstd" > FC=/opt/sun/sunstudio12.1/bin/sunf95 > FCFLAGS=$FFLAGS > FCPICFLAGS=-Kpic > MAKE=dmake > > R install guide also indicates that: "The OS needs to have enough support > for wide-character types: this is checked at configuration. Specifically, > the C99 functionality of headers wchar.h and wctype.h, types wctans_t and > mbstate_t and functions mbrtowc, mbstowcs, wcrtomb, wcscoll, wcstombs, > wctrans, wctype, and iswctype." > Configure stops with the following error message: > > checking iconv.h usability... yes > checking iconv.h presence... yes > checking for iconv.h... yes > checking for iconv... in libiconv > checking whether iconv accepts "UTF-8", "latin1" and "UCS-"... yes > checking for iconvlist... yes > checking wchar.h usability... yes > checking wchar.h presence... yes > checking for wchar.h... yes > checking wctype.h usability... yes > checking wctype.h presence... yes > checking for wctype.h... yes > checking whether mbrtowc exists and is declared... yes > checking whether wcrtomb exists and is declared... yes > checking whether wcscoll exists and is declared... yes > checking whether wcsftime exists and is declared... yes > checking whether wcstod exists and is declared... yes > checking whether mbstowcs exists and is declared... yes > checking whether wcstombs exists and is declared... yes > **checking whether wctrans exists and is declared... no > checking whether iswblank exists and is declared... no > checking whether wctype exists and is declared... no > checking whether iswctype exists and is declared... no > configure: error: Support for MBCS locales is required.* > > Relevant parts of config.log are as follows: > > configure:39472: checking whether iswctype exists and is declared > configure:39510: /opt/sun/sunstudio12.1/bin/suncc -o conftest -g -xc99 > -xlibmil -xlibmieee -m32 -I. -I/opt/sun/sunstudio12.1/prod/include > -I/opt/sun/sunstudio12.1/prod/include/cc-I/opt/sun/sunstudio12.1/prod/include/cc/sys > -I/usr/local/include -L/opt/sun/sunstudio12.1/lib/386 -L/usr/local/lib > conftest.c -ldl -lm -liconv >&5 > *"/usr/include/wctype.h", line 112: syntax error before or at: __wc > "/usr/include/wctype.h", line 195: syntax error before or at: towlower > "/usr/include/wctype.h", line 302: syntax error before or at: towupper_l > "/usr/include/wctype.h", line 302: syntax error before or at: __wc > "/usr/include/wctype.h", line 310: syntax error before or at: towctrans_l > "/usr/include/wctype.h", line 310: syntax error before or at: __wc > cc: acomp failed for conftest.c > configure:39516: $? = 1 > configure: failed program was: > | /* confdefs.h. */ > *| #define PACKAGE_NAME "R" > ........ > ........ > *| #include <wctype.h> > *| > | #ifdef F77_DUMMY_MAIN > | > | # ifdef __cplusplus > | extern "C" > | # endif > | int F77_DUMMY_MAIN() { return 1; } > | > | #endif > *| int > | main () > | { > | #ifndef iswctype > | char *p = (char *) iswctype; > | #endif > | > | ; > | return 0; > | } > configure:39534: result: no > configure:39710: error: Support for MBCS locales is required.* > > I am not sure if this is a Linux issue or if it is a SunStudio issue. Has > anybody tried to compile R on Linux using SunStudio? > > Thanks in advance, > > Russ > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel ----------------------------------------------------------------------- This message and its attachments are strictly confidenti...{{dropped:8}} ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel