Compiling R on Linux with SunStudio 12.1: "wide-character type" problems (rt)

Thank you Martyn,

I am one step closer.  Using R-patched, configure was successful. However,
make exited with an error.

Configure summary:
Installation directory:    /usr/local
  C compiler:                /opt/sun/sunstudio12.1/bin/suncc  -g -O -xc99
-xlibmil -m32  -xlibmieee -nofstore
  Fortran 77 compiler:       /opt/sun/sunstudio12.1/bin/sunf95  -g -O
-libmil  -m32 -nofstore
  C++ compiler:              /opt/sun/sunstudio12.1/bin/sunCC  -g -O
-xlibmil -m32 -xlibmieee -nofstore
  Fortran 90/95 compiler:    /opt/sun/sunstudio12.1/bin/sunf95 -g -O
-libmil  -m32 -nofstore
  Obj-C compiler:
  Interfaces supported:      X11, tcltk
  External libraries:        readline, ICU, lzma
  Additional capabilities:   PNG, JPEG, NLS, cairo
  Options enabled:           shared BLAS, R profiling, Java
  Recommended packages:      yes

MAKE error:
make returned an error related to platform.c and glob.h.
It seems that glob.h has a poiter to struct dirent {..}, platorm.c has
struct dirent64 {..}.
Error message:
  /opt/sun/sunstudio12.1/bin/suncc
  -I../../src/extra   -I. -I../../src/include -I../../src/include -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

  -DHAVE_CONFIG_H   -g -g -O -xc99 -xlibmil -m32  -xlibmieee -nofstore
  -c platform.c -o platform.o
"/usr/include/glob.h", line 175: identifier redeclared: glob64
 current : function(pointer to const char, int, pointer to function(..)
returning int, pointer to struct  {unsigned int gl_pathc, pointer to pointer
to char gl_pathv, unsigned int gl_offs, int gl_flags, pointer to
function(..) returning void gl_closedir, pointer to function(..) returning
pointer to struct dirent64 {..} gl_readdir, pointer to function(..)
returning pointer to void gl_opendir, pointer to function(..) returning int
gl_lstat, pointer to function(..) returning int gl_stat}) returning int
 previous: function(pointer to const char, int, pointer to function(..)
returning int, pointer to struct  {unsigned int gl_pathc, pointer to pointer
to char gl_pathv, unsigned int gl_offs, int gl_flags, pointer to
function(..) returning void gl_closedir, pointer to function(..) returning
pointer to struct dirent {..} gl_readdir, pointer to function(..) returning
pointer to void gl_opendir, pointer to function(..) returning int gl_lstat,
pointer to function(..) returning int gl_stat}) returning int :
"/usr/include/glob.h", line 159

My cpu is correctly identified as i386 and I included the flag -m32. Do I
need to specify architecture separately?

thanks,

Russ

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.

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:

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

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