Simon Urbanek wrote:
On Jun 7, 2005, at 12:36 PM, Rainer Hurling wrote:

One first reaction to your suggestions.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

On Mon, 23 May 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

R-2.1.0 fails to compile on the newest release of FreeBSD, complaining about undefined references to __builtin_alloca. On FreeBSD, alloca() is declared in stdlib.h, not alloca.h as the R sources expect. Therefore, HAVE_DECL_ALLOCA does not get set, so the R sources declare alloca() after it has already been
#defined by stdlib.h.

A possible fix is to modify the configure script to look for the declaration of
alloca() in stdlib.h (perhaps after it fails to find it in  alloca.h).

It is already supposed to, so it is not finding the declaration there either. If you look up the definition of
AC_CHECK_DECLS([alloca], , , [#include <alloca.h>])
it searches in stdlib.h. Can you please send us the appropriate part of config.log? It may be that this is failing because alloca.h is not found
(but AC_FUNC_ALLOCA is making the same assumptions).
Perhaps the easiest way out is to override the setting on FreeBSD: can you please confirm that manually changing
#define HAVE_DECL_ALLOCA 1
in config.h works?


Changing "#define HAVE_DECL_ALLOCA" to 1
in line 81 of R-2.1.0/src/include/config.h
gives me the following stopping:


mkdir ../../../../library/grDevices/libs
building package 'graphics'
mkdir ../../../library/graphics
mkdir ../../../library/graphics/R
mkdir ../../../library/graphics/demo
mkdir ../../../library/graphics/po
mkdir ../../../library/graphics/man
Error in dyn.load(x, as.logical(local), as.logical(now)) :
unable to load shared library '/usr/local/R-2.1.0/library/ grDevices/libs/grDevices.so': /usr/local/R-2.1.0/library/grDevices/libs/grDevices.so: Undefined symbol "__builtin_alloca"
Execution halted


Did you run a new, clean build? From the output it seems as if you just changed the file in your old build and typed make - obviously that doesn't help at all, because the setting must the changed *before* you start building. So if you didn't do so, please remove the build, unpack the sources again, run configure, change the ALLOCA define and then build.

Simon,
thank you, but I am absolute sure I made a new, clean built:

1.) untar R-2.1.0.tar.gz
2.) cd R-2.1.0
3.) ./configure
4.) edit src/include/config.h  [#define HAVE_DECL_ALLOCA 1]
5.) make

It seems to me that some files behave not like others in relation to alloca.h (resp. stdlib.h)?

Please tell me, if I can help in any way,
Rainer

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