Re: Re R-beta: 0.61.3: Problems on DEC Unix 4.0
Albrecht Gebhardt (albrecht.gebhardt@uni-klu.ac.at)
Fri, 8 May 1998 20:30:02 +0200 (CEST)
Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 20:30:02 +0200 (CEST)
From: Albrecht Gebhardt <albrecht.gebhardt@uni-klu.ac.at>
To: R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: Re: Re R-beta: 0.61.3: Problems on DEC Unix 4.0
On Fri, 8 May 1998, David Barber wrote:
> I had the same problem when I compiled on my Alpha last week. The error
> disappeared when I edited the source to join the line with the following
> parts
> of the statement to make it all one long line. Then cc did not complain.=
=20
> cc does not seem to like the division of the statement into multiple line=
s.
> If my memory serves me right, after that problem disappeared, most of the
> software compiled okay until I got an error related to the compiler not
> being
> able to find readline.h. =20
>=20
> These errors made me think I should be compiling with gcc. I went back=
=20
> and compiled with gcc. Everything compiled beautifully, but when I
> started
> R I got a core dump and a statement about a floating point exception.=20
I had the same problems with R and gcc on the Alpha with earlier
versions. If I remember right, it's because of lacking IEEE-arithmetic in
gcc. So may be you have no chance to get a working version with gcc.=20
=20
After my trouble with R 0.61.3 I=B4m now using R 0.61.1 again.
This is the last version which runs without problems on the Alpha
(compiled with cc, not gcc!)
Albrecht
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