Try compiling after configure --without-zlib (available in a less obselete system than 1.7.1). This skips your system's zlib (which is apparently fragile) and compiles that in the R sources.
On Sat, 29 Nov 2003, Thomas W Blackwell wrote: > William - > > I don't have an answer for you, just some stream of > consciousness rambling about how I would go about > diagnosing this, if it were my problem. > > In my installation directory (of R-1.7.1 on linux) there > is a file config.log which contains all of the configure > script's queries and replies. Yes, there is a difference > between configuring and compiling, but that file might be > one place to start looking for where the problem begins. > For me, 'grep gzfile config.log' returns no matching lines. Nor should it: it is lib/zlib that is being invoked, and gzfile() is an R function. > However, 'grep methods config.log' returns three lines > which say > > config.status:884: creating src/library/methods/DESCRIPTION > config.status:884: creating src/library/methods/Makefile > config.status:884: creating src/library/methods/src/Makefile > > Seems odd that the 'methods' package would be the only one > which fails to unpack. Not at all. That is the only package that is installed as a compressed saved image rather than as a text source file. > Perhaps the problem is more general, > and, likely, more elementary. > > Ah. When you downloaded the source files, did you set 'binary' > in ftp or equivalent ? > > HTH - tom blackwell - u michigan medical school - ann arbor - > > On Fri, 28 Nov 2003, William D. McCoy wrote: > > > I just finished compiling today's r-patched (R 1.8.1 patched) on my > > old Sparc 20 using gcc 3.3 along with Sun's f77. > > > > As it was compiling, I noticed an error regarding gzfile. The compile > > process left the methods directory and continued on. Obviously, there > > was a problem, but I don't have the original error message from the > > compiler. After installing R, I get the following error message when > > I start R: > > > > Error in open.connection(con, "rb") : unable to open connection > > In addition: Warning message: > > cannot open compressed file > > `/usr/local/lib/R/library/methods/R/all.rda' > > > > A check for the file 'all.rda' showed that it does not exist. I do > > have gzip installed and I have libz.so.1.1.4 in /usr/local/lib. I > > realize this isn't much to go on, but does anyone have an idea what > > might be wrong? Has anyone had a similar error? > > > > -- > > William D. McCoy > > Geosciences > > University of Massachusetts > > Amherst, MA 01003 > > > > ______________________________________________ > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > > > ______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > -- 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 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
