Including missing headers is completely the correct fix, please submit
the patches to the upstream author.


On 2012 Feb 06 (Mon) at 10:01:49 +0000 (+0000), Zi Loff wrote:
:I managed to compile R-2.14.0 and .1 from source on OpenBSD 5.0 (i386).
:
:Make failed because that two of the tre source files require stdint.h
:(for WCHAR_MAX definition) but don't include it. I managed to build R by
:inserting
:    #include <stdint.h>
:on src/extra/tre/tre-compile.c and src/extra/tre/tre-parse.c
:
:I know this is an ugly hack, and fiddling with the sources seldom is a
:good idea, but it got the job done...
:
:There are some additional issues with the Cairo graphics device,
:-pthread as a LDFLAG and some of the tests that configure runs, but I'm
:still working on that. I'll share my findings when I have more concrete
:answers (later today, hopefully).
:
:
:
:On 02/03/12 12:02, Richard Thornton wrote:
:> Using OpenBSD 5 on an old sparc 64 sun blade, I am trying to compile R from
:> source, downloaded from the cran-r website;
:> The ./configure works, but make always fails.  I realize that there is a R
:> package available already but it is a 2008 version, and it has terrible
:> graphics, anyone have a more recent port for sparc64?
:

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