Here is my log from 'make check' using an Intel i5 64-bit processor - http://pastebin.com/raw/N6SYAuFX Here is Isaac's log from 'make check' using an Intel Atom 32-bit processor - http://pastebin.com/raw/sey6DEk9
We are both on Alpine Linux, which uses the musl libc. http://www.musl-libc.org/ Thank you very much. On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 9:54 AM, Alba Pompeo <albapom...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, developers of R. > > I have been unsuccessfully trying to build R on a musl libc system for > the last days. > ./configure works, but make fails. The command that errors out is here > - http://pastebin.com/raw/UwFRsiqT > > It was brought to my attention that this is a (very longstanding) > abuse of a private > glibc symbol in R. > > In R 3.2.3, it seems that configure is trying to test for it on Linux. > It apparently fails to accurately test (as demonstrated by the link error), > perhaps because the test program does not actually *use* __libc_stack_end > so it gets optimized out. (See line 35500 or so in R-3.2.3/configure.) > Ideally, the test program would check that a pointer to __libc_stack_end > is non-null, but that's an autoconf bug. > > A work around was to 'export r_cv_libc_stack_end=no' before configuring R. > However, there are a couple little issues with non-ASCII text and a > *lot* of math differences, many of which say "*no* convergence: NOTIFY > R-core!". > > Until these are resolved, R can't be packaged for distributions that > use musl, such as Alpine Linux. > > Thank you. ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel