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Build Error on Opensolaris iconvlist

7 messages · Karun Gahlawat, Uwe Ligges, Brian Ripley

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Karun Gahlawat
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Hi!

Trying to build R-2.8.1. while configuring, it throws error

./configure

checking iconv.h usability... yes
checking iconv.h presence... yes
checking for iconv.h... yes
checking for iconv... yes
checking whether iconv accepts "UTF-8", "latin1" and "UCS-*"... no
checking for iconvlist... no
configure: error: --with-iconv=yes (default) and a suitable iconv is
not available

I am confused.. sorry new to this..
I can see the iconv binary, headers and libs all in the standard
directory. Please help or redirect!

SunOS  5.11 snv_101b i86pc i386 i86pc

CC: Sun Ceres C++ 5.10 SunOS_i386 2008/10/22



Karun
Uwe Ligges
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Karun Gahlawat wrote:
Please read the documentation, the R Installation and Administration 
manuals tells you:

"You will need GNU libiconv: the Solaris version of iconv is not 
sufficiently powerful. "

Uwe Ligges
Karun Gahlawat
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Uwe,
Sorry I missed it. I do have gnu iconv..
SUNWgnu-libiconv

ls -lra /usr/lib/*iconv* | more
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root          14 Jan 23 21:23 /usr/lib/libiconv.so -> li
bgnuiconv.so
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root          22 Jan 23 21:23 /usr/lib/libgnuiconv.so ->
 ../gnu/lib/libiconv.so

And hence the confusion..

On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Uwe Ligges
<ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de> wrote:
Uwe Ligges
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Karun Gahlawat wrote:
Hmmm, then I have no idea. Since I have not Solaris system available 
currently, I cannot test ...

Uwe
Brian Ripley
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On Sun, 25 Jan 2009, Karun Gahlawat wrote:

            

      
      
      
    

        
Did you tell R to use that one?  You need the correct header files set 
as well as the library, or you will get the system iconv.  (The header 
file remaps the entry point names.)

Perhaps you need to study the R-admin manual carefully, which 
describes how to get the correct iconv.

            

      
      
      
    

        

  
    

      
      
    

  


  


      

    

    

      
      

        


  

        

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Prof Ripely,
Thanks. SUN gnu-iconv package should overwrite the sun version and so
it does. Apparently, it does not work. I built this library from gnu
source with gcc and now it configures and builds but fails on make
check for regressions.

This topic is touched in the manual with some 'blas' and 'lapack'
libraries. Not sure if these are related though. I am not sure either
where and what to get for this. Apologize as this is all new to me.

Here is the extract from make check logs..

running code in 'reg-tests-1.R' ...*** Error code 1
The following command caused the error:
LC_ALL=C SRCDIR=. R_DEFAULT_PACKAGES= ../bin/R --vanilla <
reg-tests-1.R > reg-tests-1.Rout 2>&1 || (mv reg-tests-1.Rout
reg-tests-1.Rout.fail && exit 1)
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `reg-tests-1.Rout'
Current working directory /opt/R-2.8.1/tests
*** Error code 1
The following command caused the error:
make reg-tests-1.Rout reg-tests-2.Rout reg-IO.Rout reg-IO2.Rout
reg-plot.Rout reg-S4.Rout  RVAL_IF_DIFF=1
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `test-Reg'
Current working directory /opt/R-2.8.1/tests
*** Error code 1
The following command caused the error:
for name in Examples Specific Reg Internet; do \
  make test-${name} || exit 1; \
done
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `test-all-basics'
Current working directory /opt/R-2.8.1/tests
*** Error code 1
The following command caused the error:
(cd tests && make check)
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `check'


On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Prof Brian Ripley

        
<ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:

            

      
      
      
    

  
  


  


      

    

    

      
      

        


  

        

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On Sun, 25 Jan 2009, Karun Gahlawat wrote:

        

            

      
      
      
    

        
As I said, you also need to pick up the correct header.

            

      
      
      
    

        
You need to look at the end of tests/reg-tests-1.R to see the error.

BTW< according to the posting guide this topic was for the R-devel 
list.