You got a segmentation fault from the compiler. It is the notorious gcc `2.96' (see gcc.gnu.org -- there is no such version according to the gcc developers). It used to be a frequent source of grief (but then RedHat 7.2 is old now), and the advice is to use a released version of gcc.
At least some versions of `2.96' will compile R but the build will crash during the tests. On Sun, 11 Jan 2004, Jim Lemon wrote: > Hi, > > Searchng the archives for the messages containing: > > error & making & R-1.8 > error & make & R-1.8 Try searching for gcc & 2.96. > I found two possibly relevant messages. Both concerned compression routines, > and the one reply that I could find indicated that the local libraries might > be out of date or corrupt. Yes, but that was R not running correctly (later in the build), and your build is trying to compile libz from the sources since your libz *is* out of date (and a security risk). > I think these are the relevant libraries: > > /usr/lib/libz.so.1 > /usr/lib/libz.so.1.1.3 > /usr/lib/libzvt.so.2.2.10 > /usr/lib/libzvt.so.2 > /usr/lib/libz.a > /usr/lib/libz.so > > Building R-1.8.1 on: > > RedHat v7.2 > gcc v2.96 > > produces the following error messages: > > make[4]: Entering directory `/usr/local/R-1.8.1/src/extra/zlib' > ... > making infutil.d from infutil.c > make[4]: *** [infutil.d] Segmentation fault > make[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/R-1.8.1/src/extra/zlib' > make[3]: *** [R] Error 2 > make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/R-1.8.1/src/extra/zlib' > make[2]: *** [R] Error 1 > make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/R-1.8.1/src/extra' > make[1]: *** [R] Error 1 > make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/R-1.8.1/src' > make: *** [R] Error 1 > > I suspect a type mismatch, but was unable to find it. The Makefile is so > cryptic that I couldn't work out the compilation command and thus couldn't > get more info. Thanks for any help. Note: it is not compiling at this point but producing a dependency file. -- 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 PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
