Thank you both for your reply. After reading your responses, I removed the existing CSWcurl, and compiled curl-7.21.2 from source using solstudio (the same compiler I got R-2.12.0 in place) to /opt/csw. Tried to install RCurl, I got the same error, the only difference is the include file's line number,
"/opt/csw/include/curl/curlrules.h", line 143: zero or negative subscript The line 143 is the third line of the following, the variable must have been defined outside the file. typedef char __curl_rule_01__ [CurlchkszEQ(long, CURL_SIZEOF_LONG)]; I don't know what value the compiler expect, but can I define it here if I know? As to the bit, this machine's got 64G memory, I simply has no choice but to compile 64-bit R. Jun -----Original Message----- From: r-devel-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-devel-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Prof Brian Ripley Sent: Saturday, December 04, 2010 1:03 AM To: Duncan Temple Lang Cc: r-devel@r-project.org Subject: Re: [Rd] Problem installing RCurl On Fri, 3 Dec 2010, Duncan Temple Lang wrote: > > Hi Jun > > On 12/3/10 2:15 PM, Zhang,Jun wrote: >> I have 64-bit R 2 12 0 installed on Solaris 10 of Sun Sparc. When I tried to >> install RCurl, it failed with the following lines, >> >> ............... >> Version has CURLOPT_SSL_SESSIONID_CACHE >> libcurl version: libcurl 7.19.6 >> configure: creating ./config.status >> config.status: creating src/Makevars >> ** libs >> cc -xc99 -m64 -xarch=sparcvis2 -I/apps/sparcv9/R-2.12.0/lib/R/include >> -I/opt/csw/include -DHAVE_LIBIDN_FIELD=1 -DHAVE_CURLOPT_URL=1 >> -DHAVE_CURLINFO_EFFECTIVE_URL=1 .........(omitted here is very long, all >> upper case) -DHAVE_CURLOPT_SSL_SESSIONID_CACHE=1 -I/opt/csw/include -KPIC >> -xcode=abs64 -xlibmieee -xtarget=ultra3 -xarch=sparcvis2 -c base64.c -o >> base64.o >> "/opt/csw/include/curl/curlrules.h", line 144: zero or negative subscript > > This error indicates that the compiler (cc with flags -xc99 -m64, > etc.) sees the size of the 'long' data type in C is different from > what was seen when libcurl was configured, built and installed. > > So basically the compiler and/or the compiler flags were different. > > How was libcurl installed - from source or from a pre-built binary ? > What compiler and flags were used? The header is from a prebuilt binary (from OpenCSW). That is built with gcc and not the Sun compiler. And curlbuild.h says /* Allow 32 and 64 bit headers to coexist */ #if defined __amd64 || defined __x86_64 || defined __sparcv9 #include "curlbuild-64.h" #else #include "curlbuild-32.h" #endif which AFAIK are gcc and not Sun defines. You could try adding -D__sparcv9 to the CPPFLAGS, or compile RCurl with OpenCSW's gcc build (but 64-bit gcc is another can of worms). I've pointed out to Jun Zhang several times that 64-bit Sparc Solaris is really pushing it, and 32-bit R on Sparc Solaris has been much more successful. Given that x86_64 boxes (Solaris or Linux) are so much faster at computation than Sparc ones, I don't see the point of building 64-bit Sparc Solaris R -- if 32-bit R is not enough you need a faster machine. > > D. > > >> "base64.c", line 25: warning: assignment type mismatch: >> pointer to const char "=" pointer to unsigned char >> "base64.c", line 39: warning: argument #1 is incompatible with prototype: >> prototype: pointer to const char : >> "/apps/sparcv9/R-2.12.0/lib/R/include/Rinternals.h", line 1042 >> argument : pointer to unsigned char >> "base64.c", line 60: warning: assignment type mismatch: >> pointer to const char "=" pointer to unsigned char >> cc: acomp failed for base64.c >> make: *** [base64.o] Error 2 >> ERROR: compilation failed for package 'RCurl' >> * removing '/apps/sparcv9/R-2.12.0/lib/R/library/RCurl' >> >> The downloaded packages are in >> '/tmp/Rtmpo67mNX/downloaded_packages' >> Updating HTML index of packages in '.Library' >> Warning message: >> In install.packages("RCurl") : >> installation of package 'RCurl' had non-zero exit status >>> >> >> What is the problem? >> >> Jun >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > -- Brian D. Ripley, rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel