R-1.0.0 and Alpha-linux (RH 6.1)
I just resubscribed to r-help after being unsubscribed for a while so apologies in advance if I missed part of this. I was having some trouble compiling R using gcc on alpha osf5 (and am still having some trouble with the native C compiler), but found a suggestion from Greg Snow to try compiling with the -mieee-with-inexact flag instead of the default -ieee_with_inexact. I get a similar result to yours (floating point exception just before the prompt) when I compile with the default, but it seems to work fine with -mieee-with-inexact (passes all tests). Don't know if this is relevant to Alpha Linux, but might be worth a try if you haven't already.
On Sun, 5 Mar 2000 hansel at hansel.moorhead.msus.edu wrote:
R-1.0.0 still will not run on Alpha-Linux (RH 6.1). I have two LX164 machines. One runs RH 6.0, the other RH 6.1. Only the RH 6.1 gives problems, at least as far as I have tested. First, R-1.0.0 compiles, installs and runs on an LX164 RH 6.0. All the checks ran without complaint. On the LX164 RH 6.1, it compiles and installs. Running it from the command line or running the checks returns a floating point exception. The check (make check) output filetests stops with only the floating point exception. ([ctest-Ex.Rout] reports Error 136) and then Error 2 as make backs up to the top level. The error occurs after initialization output and somewhere before a prompt appears. On the 6.1 machine, I tried compiling optim.c by hand and relinking (with make) as suggested, as suggested by one developer. Same crash, same place. FWIW: This same pattern occurs with the netscape compaq released for alpha Linux. It runs on RH 6.0 and not on RH 6.1 and crashes with the floating point exception. There are no compiler errors for R on either platform. Compiler is egcs 2.91.66 (from gcc -v) (This is the egcs-1.1.2 release). The RH install is pure vanilla at this point. --No upgrades and no libraries installed that are relevant. (I have private mail to the effect that one other alpha machines (DS10) work fine with Rh 6.1.) Mark Hansel PO Box 41 Moorhead State University Moorhead, MN 56563 ph: 218-236-2039 fax: 218-236-2593 email: hansel at mnstate.edu web: http://wwwcj.moorhead.msus.edu -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
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