Hello - thanks to Prof. Ripley and Peter Dalgaard for their helpful responses. I have now successfully compiled R on my machine. The kernel-headers were not installed on my machine, but there is a package on the Open Linux 2.3 CD. I believe they weren't installed simply because I didn't choose to have all the development tools/libraries added when I installed linux. I didn't realize how soon I'd be compiling things. Prof Brian Ripley Wrote:
K> I am a first-time R user trying to compile v.0.90.0 under Caldera K> OpenLinux 2.3, on a Dell PII400/128. I've encountered a problem with the K> make file. Well, not with the make file but with your system.
Of course, I didn't mean to suggest the problem was internal to the make file. As I said at the end of my message, I was wondering what *I* was doing wrong, not what was wrong with R. For future reference, the two (system-related) difficulties I encountered while trying to compile R under Cladera OL2.3 were: 1. An initial error with the fortran compiler g77. This resulted in a problem at the /.configure stage, when confiugre complained that gcc and g77 did not agree on the long int format. An updated g77 package for COL, available at ftp://ftp.calderasystems.com/pub/OpenLinux/patches/earlyaccess/g77-2.91.66-6.i386.rpm solved this problem. 2. The missing package that led to my posting to this list. It can be found on the COL install CD and is called linux-kernel-include.rpm. Thanks again for quickly pointing me in the right direction. I'm looking forward to using R. Kieran
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