It's not endemic to suse 9.2 (compile running as I write this). Google finds some messages from the amd64 list with similar error messages. Any chance you are running a 64bit OS and mixing up 32 and 64bit tool chains?
rpm -qf `which gas` rpm -qf `which g77` could be revealing. "Dale Ryon Wilhelm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > looked thru config.log and got the following ( see below )... not > knowing much about fortran, this doesn't make much sense to me... my > apologies for the initial html message... > > configure:25460: checking how to get verbose linking output from g77 > configure:25471: g77 -c conftest.f >&5 > /tmp/ccK3gsfu.s: Assembler messages: > /tmp/ccK3gsfu.s:8: Error: suffix or operands invalid for `push' > /tmp/ccK3gsfu.s:12: Error: suffix or operands invalid for `push' > /tmp/ccK3gsfu.s:13: Error: suffix or operands invalid for `push' > configure:25477: $? = 1 > configure: failed program was: > | program main > | > | end > configure:25556: WARNING: compilation failed > configure:25562: result: > configure:25564: checking for Fortran libraries of g77 > configure:25585: g77 -o conftest -L/usr/local/lib conftest.f >&5 > /tmp/cclyaHyt.s: Assembler messages: > /tmp/cclyaHyt.s:8: Error: suffix or operands invalid for `push' > /tmp/cclyaHyt.s:12: Error: suffix or operands invalid for `push' > /tmp/cclyaHyt.s:13: Error: suffix or operands invalid for `push' > configure:25746: result: > configure:25785: checking for dummy main to link with Fortran libraries > configure:25824: gcc -o conftest -g -O2 -I/usr/local/include > -L/usr/local/lib co > nftest.c -ldl -lm >&5 > configure:25830: $? = 0 > configure:25834: test -z > || test ! -s conftest.err > configure:25837: $? = 0 > configure:25840: test -s conftest > configure:25843: $? = 0 > configure:25921: result: none > configure:25958: checking for Fortran name-mangling scheme > configure:25972: g77 -c conftest.f >&5 > /tmp/ccpZMdHB.s: Assembler messages: > /tmp/ccpZMdHB.s:6: Error: suffix or operands invalid for `push' > /tmp/ccpZMdHB.s:8: Error: suffix or operands invalid for `pop' > /tmp/ccpZMdHB.s:14: Error: suffix or operands invalid for `push' > /tmp/ccpZMdHB.s:16: Error: suffix or operands invalid for `pop' > configure:25978: $? = 1 > configure: failed program was: > | subroutine foobar() > | return > | end > | subroutine foo_bar() > | return > | end > configure:26186: error: cannot compile a simple Fortran program > See `config.log' for more details. > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 2:08 PM > To: Dale Ryon Wilhelm > Cc: r-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch > Subject: Re: [Rd] install issue | suse 9.2 > > It says > > > See `config.log' for more details > > Please look there and extract the information (and see the comment about > > HTML mail below). > > > On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Dale Ryon Wilhelm wrote: > > > i am trying to install r v2.0.1 on my suse 9.2 pro box... when i run > > configure, i get the following error: > > > > > > > > checking how to get verbose linking output from g77... configure: > > WARNING: compilation failed > > > > > > > > checking for Fortran libraries of g77... > > > > checking for dummy main to link with Fortran libraries... none > > > > checking for Fortran name-mangling scheme... configure: error: cannot > > compile a simple Fortran program > > > > See `config.log' for more details > > > > > > > > anybody know why i am getting this error? g77 is installed correctly > and > > working properly... > > > > > > > > > > > > -<0>- > > > > d. ryon wilhelm > > > > EVNINE-VAUGHAN ASSOCIATES, INC. > > > > 415.835.7855 > > > > > > > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > The posting guide does ask you not to send HTML mail. > > > -- > Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 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@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) FAX: (+45) 35327907 ______________________________________________ R-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel