FYI: issue with arpa/inet.h on SunOS 5.9 (old gcc?)

Mon, Nov 5, 2007 11:33 PM

What OS was that compiler built for?  This happened when you had a 
version of gcc built for the wrong version of the OS, as gcc captures 
system headers.  (There's a warning about that in the R-admin manual.)

The 'report to' message is autogenerated by autoconf.

SunStudio 11 is a recent version of Sun's compilers, and much to be 
preferred to gcc 3.0.4 on that platform (and probably to any version of 
gcc there).

On Mon, 5 Nov 2007, Don MacQueen wrote:

This just information of my experience installing R on SunOS 5.9
today, not a request for help.
(in case anyone cares, and if not, I apologize for the distraction)

I am building R 2.6.0 (patched; svn revision 43319, 2007-11-01) and
encountered the problem described below.

I believe the problem is an old gcc (version 3.0.4, built some 5
years ago), because the warnings do not occur when I specify
   CC = cc
in the environment before configuring, and building R succeeds.

Hence I'm mailing to r-devel instead of r-bugs, as suggested in the
warning messages.

I don't have much information about the cc I used (I'm not the
sysadmin of this or any Solaris machine), other than it resides in
/opt/SUNWspro, and appears to be part of "Sun Studio 11", whatever
that is.


The messages from R's configure were:

configure: WARNING: arpa/inet.h: present but cannot be compiled
configure: WARNING: arpa/inet.h:     check for missing prerequisite headers?
configure: WARNING: arpa/inet.h: see the Autoconf documentation
configure: WARNING: arpa/inet.h:     section "Present But Cannot Be Compiled"
configure: WARNING: arpa/inet.h: proceeding with the preprocessor's result
configure: WARNING: arpa/inet.h: in the future, the compiler will
take precedence
configure: WARNING:     ## ----------------------------------- ##
configure: WARNING:     ## Report this to r-bugs at R-project.org ##
configure: WARNING:     ## ----------------------------------- ##

And then the same set of warnings for
  netdb.h
  netinet/in.h
  sys/socket.h

At the very end configure reports:

configure: WARNING: could not determine type of socket length


Then, make fails with:

In file included from /usr/include/netinet/in.h:41,
                 from /usr/include/netdb.h:98,
                 from ../../../R-patched/src/main/platform.c:1586:
/usr/include/sys/stream.h:307: parse error before "projid_t"
make[3]: *** [platform.o] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/apps/kosapps/R/R-2.6.0/build/src/main'
make[2]: *** [R] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/apps/kosapps/R/R-2.6.0/build/src/main'
make[1]: *** [R] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/apps/kosapps/R/R-2.6.0/build/src'
make: *** [R] Error 1

Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
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FYI: issue with arpa/inet.h on SunOS 5.9 (old gcc?)

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