The recent update to R would prevent it from building on Solaris, as there was
no suitable iconv.
I've created a package for iconv.
http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/8191
which William said:
http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel/msg/7b3a8b848b90b6f3
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I personally think that iconv should be much more easily allowed in as a
standard Sage package (no big waiting period when it is optional etc.) since it
is now _required_ by a standard Sage package (namely R).
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Since iconv is a new package, it needs not only including, but updates to
spkg/install and spkg/standard/deps, which I've attached to the trac ticket.
After adding the iconv library, R would still not build !!
After a post to the R mailing list, I was advised of a configure option
"--without-ICU". I can't find this documented, but the configure option disables
R's use of the ICU library - otherwise we would have to add yet another
library to the Sage tarball.
I've enabled that option (only on Solaris), and R now builds ok. I also sorted
out a few minor Solaris-specific issues in R's spkg-install file.
http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/8285
If anyone could review
http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/8191
and/or
http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/8285
I would appreciate it.
I've spent quite a bit of time today trying to resolve the issues created by
updating R, without it being tested on Solaris.
Dave
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