make check fails after base-Ex.R

Dear R-help,


I tried to build the R-release version of R-1.0.0.

./configure and make seemed to go just fine.

When I ran 'make check' from $RHOME, it dumped core apparently in the 

	quit('no') 

on the last line of  base-Ex.R

I had been having some problems with a package I am building in that R
would report with "Process R segmentation violation (core dumped)" upon
q() in this and R-0.90.1 even though it seemed to do calculations that
agree with an equivalent package compiled and run under S+3.4.

So I tried to mimic base-Ex.R, viz.
(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/local/R/R-release/bin/R.X11
[snip banner]

library(mva)
q()

Save workspace image? [y/n/c]: n

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0xfefe333c in __do_global_dtors_aux ()
   from /usr/local/R/R-release/library/mva/libs/mva.so
(gdb) 

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FWIW, upon restarting R, loading mva, and setting a breakpoint at
__do_global_dtors_aux, I determined that the segfault occurs in the
third attempted 'step'

This also happens in R-0.90.1.

So what is wrong with my setup.

I have 

Solaris 7,
gcc version 2.95.1 19990816 (release) w/ g77 (binary distrn from
sunfreeware.com)
/usr/ccs/bin/make (Sun)

Version:
 platform = sparc-sun-solaris2.7
 arch = sparc
 os = solaris2.7
 system = sparc, solaris2.7
 status = Patched
 major = 1
 minor = 0.0
 year = 2000
 month = February
 day = 29
 language = R

On Sat, 11 Mar 2000, Charles C. Berry wrote:

Dear R-help,


I tried to build the R-release version of R-1.0.0.

Do you mean the R-release version, period?  There have been problems
with the distribution of that.

./configure and make seemed to go just fine.

We have no problems with Solaris 2.7 aka 7, gcc 2.95.2 (never tried 2.95.1,
which was current for only a very short while) built ourselves (on 2.6) and
GNU or Sun make.  On what version was your binary compiler distribution
built? That site has 2.95.2 for Solaris 7 currently (and emacs-20.4 even
though .6 is out!)  I would try that for a start (although I would build my
own).

Version:
 platform = sparc-sun-solaris2.7
 arch = sparc
 os = solaris2.7
 system = sparc, solaris2.7
 status = Patched
 major = 1
 minor = 0.0
 year = 2000
 month = February
 day = 29
 language = R

This indicates the R-release distribution during a phase when it was out of
date (and so actually unpatched).


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