Error in R-1.8.1 build
You got a segmentation fault from the compiler. It is the notorious gcc `2.96' (see gcc.gnu.org -- there is no such version according to the gcc developers). It used to be a frequent source of grief (but then RedHat 7.2 is old now), and the advice is to use a released version of gcc. At least some versions of `2.96' will compile R but the build will crash during the tests.
On Sun, 11 Jan 2004, Jim Lemon wrote:
Hi, Searchng the archives for the messages containing: error & making & R-1.8 error & make & R-1.8
Try searching for gcc & 2.96.
I found two possibly relevant messages. Both concerned compression routines, and the one reply that I could find indicated that the local libraries might be out of date or corrupt.
Yes, but that was R not running correctly (later in the build), and your build is trying to compile libz from the sources since your libz *is* out of date (and a security risk).
I think these are the relevant libraries: /usr/lib/libz.so.1 /usr/lib/libz.so.1.1.3 /usr/lib/libzvt.so.2.2.10 /usr/lib/libzvt.so.2 /usr/lib/libz.a /usr/lib/libz.so Building R-1.8.1 on: RedHat v7.2 gcc v2.96 produces the following error messages: make[4]: Entering directory `/usr/local/R-1.8.1/src/extra/zlib' ... making infutil.d from infutil.c make[4]: *** [infutil.d] Segmentation fault make[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/R-1.8.1/src/extra/zlib' make[3]: *** [R] Error 2 make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/R-1.8.1/src/extra/zlib' make[2]: *** [R] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/R-1.8.1/src/extra' make[1]: *** [R] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/R-1.8.1/src' make: *** [R] Error 1 I suspect a type mismatch, but was unable to find it. The Makefile is so cryptic that I couldn't work out the compilation command and thus couldn't get more info. Thanks for any help.
Note: it is not compiling at this point but producing a dependency file.
Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595