Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0305162056080.10896-100000@gannet.stats>
Date: 2003-05-16T20:09:06Z
From: Brian Ripley
Subject: 1.7.0 installation problem
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20030516153334.00b68950@postoffice4.mail.cornell.edu>
On Fri, 16 May 2003, Eric Evans wrote:
> I'm having a problem trying to upgrade from R 1.6.0 to 1.7.0 on our
> Suns. We're running Solaris 8 and we're using gcc 3.2.3. The problem is
> that I get a bunch of error messages about a missing subroutine
> Rdconv::fill during the "make" of 1.7.0, although I didn't have this
> missing subroutine problem back when I installed 1.6.0. Can anyone suggest
> how I can fix this problem and get 1.7.0 to compile on our systems? Thanks
> very much.
This looks like a Perl problem. fill is in Text::Wrap, so my guess is
that there is a problem with your installation. Could you please send us
the output of perl --version and the exact error messages. (We know the
current Perl 5.8.0 works, so upgrading to that should solve the problem.)
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Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
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