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R compilation problem on 64 bit SunOS (PR#13898)

5 messages · uwe_f_mayer at yahoo.com, Peter Dalgaard, Brian Ripley +1 more

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uwe_f_mayer at yahoo.com
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Full_Name: Uwe F. Mayer
Version: 2.9.1
OS: SunOS myhost 5.10 Generic_120012-14 i86pc i386 i86pc Solaris
Submission from: (NULL) (216.113.168.130)


With the change of the NLS handling from 2.9.0 to 2.9.1 the compilation breaks,
even as I do specifically not request nls.

Specifics:

gcc -v 
Using built-in specs.
Target: x86_64-pc-solaris2.10
Configured with: ../../src/gcc-4.4.0/configure
--prefix=/usr/local/opt/x86_64-pc-solaris2.10/gcc-4.4.0
--with-gmp=/usr/local/opt/x86_64-pc-solaris2.10
--with-mpfr=/usr/local/opt/x86_64-pc-solaris2.10 --disable-nls
--enable-languages=c,c++,fortran -with-gnu-as --without-gnu-ld
--with-ld=/usr/ccs/bin/ld --with-as=/usr/sfw/bin/gas CC='gcc -m64' CXX='g++
-m64' CFLAGS='-m64 -g -O2' CXXFLAGS='-m64 -g -O2' LDFLAGS=-m64
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.4.0 (GCC) 

R version: 2.9.1 (2009-06-29)

R configuration
../../src/R-2.9.1/configure
--prefix=/usr/local/opt/x86_64-pc-solaris2.10/R-2.9.1
--exec-prefix=/usr/local/opt/x86_64-pc-solaris2.10/R-2.9.1 --disable-nls
--without-recommended-packages --with-readline --with-gnu-ld CC="gcc -m64
-I/usr/local/opt/x86_64-pc-solaris2.10/include
-L/usr/local/opt/x86_64-pc-solaris2.10/lib" F77="gfortran -m64" CXX="g++ -m64"
FC="gfortran -m64" LIBnn=lib64 LD=/usr/local/opt/x86_64-pc-solaris2.10/bin/ld

The last compilation step throwing the error:

gcc -m64 -I/usr/local/opt/x86_64-pc-solaris2.10/include
-L/usr/local/opt/x86_64-pc-solaris2.10/lib -std=gnu99 -I. -I../../src/include
-I../../../../src/R-2.9.1/src/include -I/usr/openwin/include
-I/usr/local/include -DHAVE_CONFIG_H    -g -O2 -c
../../../../src/R-2.9.1/src/unix/system.c -o system.o
In file included from /usr/include/locale.h:50,
                 from ../../../../src/R-2.9.1/src/unix/system.c:36:
/usr/include/libintl.h:62: error: expected identifier or '(' before 'unsigned'

The contents of /usr/include/libintl.h, line62:

extern char *ngettext(const char *, const char *, unsigned long int);

The same error happens to several other files (datetime.c, main.c, platform.c
util.c), all of which with the exception of the last one have not even changed
since 2.9.0. I compiled 2.9.0. in a parallel tree, copied the corresponding .o
files over, and got the resulting version to run.
Brian Ripley
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You are reporting a Solaris error to R-bugs.  If the Solaris libintl.h 
is broken (and it seems yours is), then you need to try one that 
works (e.g. OpenCSW) or force the use of the one in the R sources by

   --with-included-gettext use the GNU gettext library included here

or dlsable NLS (see below).

Please don't use R-bugs for things that are not R problems.
On Fri, 21 Aug 2009, uwe_f_mayer at yahoo.com wrote:

            

      
      
      
    

        
In fact you did not specifically not request nls: use the flag from 
the gcc specs below to do so (as someone did for gcc).

            

      
      
      
    

        

      
      
    

        

  
    

      
      
    

  


  


      

    

    

      
      

        


  

        

      Peter Dalgaard
    

    

      
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Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

        
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Brian, I see --disable-nls in both places, so you may want to expand on
that. (I could well be missing the point, but then I'd like to know what
it was.)

            

      
      
      
    

        
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      Brian Ripley
    

    

      
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On Fri, 21 Aug 2009, Peter Dalgaard wrote:

        

            

      
      
      
    

        
The include of libintl.h is inside ENABLE_NLS, and when I tried with 
--disable-nls it was not included.  So I cannot reproduce this if that 
option was actually used.

The point is that Solaris' libintl.h is incompatible with the GNU one.

            

      
      
      
    

        

  
    

      
      
    

  


  


      

    

    

      
      

        


  

        

      Uwe F. Mayer
    

    

      
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A follow-up: I specified --disable-nls, but nevertheless locale.h is included, which then includes libintl.h.

I also install the the GNU gettext package, but I am getting the same error message (obviously now at libintl.h from the GNU package at a different line count), so that did not fix it.

As far as I can tell this is a configuration problem, since locale.h should not be included in the first place if --disable-nls is specified.

        
--- On Fri, 8/21/09, Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote: