Oakeley, Edward wrote: > Dear all, > > I have been trying to build R-2.5.1 on the Interix-6.0 Unix subsystem > that ships with Vista and everything looks fine during the configure > except towards the end when "sed" throws an error: > > sed: 1: ""s/\*/\\\*/g"": invalid command code " > > A few lines later I then get: > > ./configure: : bad substitution > > So I guess sed is trying to do something and because it failed the rest > of the configure process breaks. It would be very helpful to get R to > build (or at least the "standalone" bits) because then I can link it in > to perl scripts running on Interix that make use of R libraries. > > If anyone can make a suggestion I would really appreciate it as the > alternative (cygwin) is REALLY slow compared to Interix. > > Ouch. Good luck...
Looks like you also have some serious issues with shared libraries, without which you will have trouble loading R packages (i.e. with everything, basically). The sed issue appears to involve quoting; could it be related to whichever shell is being used? > The output from the ./configure command is listed below in case I missed > something. > > Thanks > > Ed > > ---------- > checking build system type... i586-pc-interix6.0 > checking host system type... i586-pc-interix6.0 > loading site script './config.site' > loading build specific script './config.site' > checking for pwd... /bin/pwd > checking whether builddir is srcdir... yes > checking for working aclocal... found > checking for working autoconf... found > checking for working automake... found > checking for working autoheader... found > checking for gawk... gawk > checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep > checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E > checking whether ln -s works... yes > checking for ranlib... ranlib > checking for bison... bison -y > checking for ar... ar > checking for a BSD-compatible install... /bin/install -c > checking for sed... /bin/sed > checking for less... /bin/less > checking for perl... /usr/local/bin/perl > checking whether perl version is at least 5.004... yes > checking for dvips... no > checking for tex... no > checking for latex... no > checking for makeindex... no > checking for pdftex... no > checking for pdflatex... no > checking for makeinfo... /usr/local/bin/makeinfo > checking whether makeinfo version is at least 4.7... yes > checking for unzip... /usr/contrib/bin/unzip > checking for zip... /usr/contrib/bin/zip > checking for gzip... /usr/local/bin/gzip > checking for firefox... no > checking for mozilla... no > checking for netscape... no > checking for galeon... no > checking for kfmclient... no > checking for opera... no > checking for gnome-moz-remote... no > checking for open... no > checking for acroread... no > checking for acroread4... no > checking for xpdf... no > checking for gv... no > checking for gnome-gv... no > checking for ggv... no > checking for kghostview... no > checking for open... no > checking for gpdf... no > checking for gcc... gcc > checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out > checking whether the C compiler works... yes > checking whether we are cross compiling... no > checking for suffix of executables... > checking for suffix of object files... o > checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes > checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes > checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed > checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E > checking whether gcc needs -traditional... no > checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E > checking for g77... g77 > checking whether we are using the GNU Fortran 77 compiler... yes > checking whether g77 accepts -g... yes > checking for g++... g++ > checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes > checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes > checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... g++ -E > checking whether __attribute__((visibility())) is supported... no > checking whether gcc accepts -fvisibility... no > checking whether g77 accepts -fvisibility... no > checking for gcc... gcc > checking whether we are using the GNU Objective C compiler... yes > checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes > checking whether g++ can compile ObjC++... yes > checking for Objective C++ compiler... g++ > checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed > checking for ld used by gcc... /opt/gcc.3.3/i586-pc-interix3/bin/ld > checking if the linker (/opt/gcc.3.3/i586-pc-interix3/bin/ld) is GNU > ld... yes > checking for /opt/gcc.3.3/i586-pc-interix3/bin/ld option to reload > object files... -r > checking for BSD-compatible nm... /bin/nm -B > checking how to recognise dependent libraries... unknown > checking for ANSI C header files... yes > checking for sys/types.h... yes > checking for sys/stat.h... yes > checking for stdlib.h... yes > checking for string.h... yes > checking for memory.h... yes > checking for strings.h... yes > checking for inttypes.h... yes > checking for stdint.h... yes > checking for unistd.h... yes > checking dlfcn.h usability... yes > checking dlfcn.h presence... yes > checking for dlfcn.h... yes > checking the maximum length of command line arguments... 262144 > checking command to parse /bin/nm -B output from gcc object... ok > checking for objdir... .libs > checking for ranlib... (cached) ranlib > checking for strip... strip > checking if gcc static flag works... yes > checking if gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... no > checking for gcc option to produce PIC... -fPIC > checking if gcc PIC flag -fPIC works... yes > checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... yes > checking whether the gcc linker (/opt/gcc.3.3/i586-pc-interix3/bin/ld) > supports shared libraries... no > checking dynamic linker characteristics... no > checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate > checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes > checking if libtool supports shared libraries... no > checking whether to build shared libraries... no > checking whether to build static libraries... yes > configure: creating libtool > appending configuration tag "CXX" to libtool > checking for ld used by g++... /opt/gcc.3.3/i586-pc-interix3/bin/ld > checking if the linker (/opt/gcc.3.3/i586-pc-interix3/bin/ld) is GNU > ld... yes > checking whether the g++ linker (/opt/gcc.3.3/i586-pc-interix3/bin/ld) > supports shared libraries... no > sed: 1: ""s/\*/\\\*/g"": invalid command code " > checking for g++ option to produce PIC... -fPIC > checking if g++ PIC flag -fPIC works... yes > checking if g++ supports -c -o file.o... yes > checking whether the g++ linker (/opt/gcc.3.3/i586-pc-interix3/bin/ld) > supports shared libraries... no > checking dynamic linker characteristics... no > checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate > checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes > appending configuration tag "F77" to libtool > checking if libtool supports shared libraries... no > checking whether to build shared libraries... no > checking whether to build static libraries... yes > checking for g77 option to produce PIC... -fPIC > checking if g77 PIC flag -fPIC works... yes > checking if g77 supports -c -o file.o... yes > checking whether the g77 linker (/opt/gcc.3.3/i586-pc-interix3/bin/ld) > supports shared libraries... no > checking dynamic linker characteristics... no > checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate > checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes > ./configure: : bad substitution > > ______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Øster Farimagsgade 5, Entr.B c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics PO Box 2099, 1014 Cph. 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