Problem installing RCurl
On Fri, 3 Dec 2010, Duncan Temple Lang wrote:
Hi Jun On 12/3/10 2:15 PM, Zhang,Jun wrote:
I have 64-bit R 2 12 0 installed on Solaris 10 of Sun Sparc. When I tried to install RCurl, it failed with the following lines, ............... Version has CURLOPT_SSL_SESSIONID_CACHE libcurl version: libcurl 7.19.6 configure: creating ./config.status config.status: creating src/Makevars ** libs cc -xc99 -m64 -xarch=sparcvis2 -I/apps/sparcv9/R-2.12.0/lib/R/include -I/opt/csw/include -DHAVE_LIBIDN_FIELD=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_URL=1 -DHAVE_CURLINFO_EFFECTIVE_URL=1 .........(omitted here is very long, all upper case) -DHAVE_CURLOPT_SSL_SESSIONID_CACHE=1 -I/opt/csw/include -KPIC -xcode=abs64 -xlibmieee -xtarget=ultra3 -xarch=sparcvis2 -c base64.c -o base64.o "/opt/csw/include/curl/curlrules.h", line 144: zero or negative subscript
This error indicates that the compiler (cc with flags -xc99 -m64, etc.) sees the size of the 'long' data type in C is different from what was seen when libcurl was configured, built and installed. So basically the compiler and/or the compiler flags were different. How was libcurl installed - from source or from a pre-built binary ? What compiler and flags were used?
The header is from a prebuilt binary (from OpenCSW). That is built with gcc and not the Sun compiler. And curlbuild.h says /* Allow 32 and 64 bit headers to coexist */ #if defined __amd64 || defined __x86_64 || defined __sparcv9 #include "curlbuild-64.h" #else #include "curlbuild-32.h" #endif which AFAIK are gcc and not Sun defines. You could try adding -D__sparcv9 to the CPPFLAGS, or compile RCurl with OpenCSW's gcc build (but 64-bit gcc is another can of worms). I've pointed out to Jun Zhang several times that 64-bit Sparc Solaris is really pushing it, and 32-bit R on Sparc Solaris has been much more successful. Given that x86_64 boxes (Solaris or Linux) are so much faster at computation than Sparc ones, I don't see the point of building 64-bit Sparc Solaris R -- if 32-bit R is not enough you need a faster machine.
D.
"base64.c", line 25: warning: assignment type mismatch:
pointer to const char "=" pointer to unsigned char
"base64.c", line 39: warning: argument #1 is incompatible with prototype:
prototype: pointer to const char : "/apps/sparcv9/R-2.12.0/lib/R/include/Rinternals.h", line 1042
argument : pointer to unsigned char
"base64.c", line 60: warning: assignment type mismatch:
pointer to const char "=" pointer to unsigned char
cc: acomp failed for base64.c
make: *** [base64.o] Error 2
ERROR: compilation failed for package 'RCurl'
* removing '/apps/sparcv9/R-2.12.0/lib/R/library/RCurl'
The downloaded packages are in
'/tmp/Rtmpo67mNX/downloaded_packages'
Updating HTML index of packages in '.Library'
Warning message:
In install.packages("RCurl") :
installation of package 'RCurl' had non-zero exit status
What is the problem? Jun [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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