Well, I was able to build R 2.14.0 on my Solaris x86 machine, with a lot of
work and some help. Thanks!
At first the update.packages() would not work because some of the .so files
that came with R were 32 - not 64 bit. I was able to install them and so
now the update.packages() works. I still
I put the header in the R home/include. Was that right?
Probably not. I would expect something like /usr/local/include, and maybe a
-I option to make sure it was found before the Solaris-supplied one. Does
make install (for iconv) not do that for you?
Wow! Thanks! That was it! I checked out
For some reason when I click on reply and sign-in - the message I'm replying
to is not carried forward. As you requested that include your message I
copied and pasted it from my email.
A suitably comprehensive iconv function is essential. The R usage requires
iconv to be able to translate
I used the --disable-nls and --with-included-gettext options. I also
downloaded the more up-to-date cairo package.
BTW, is there a program I can run to test my iconv binary? I think that
would rule out any problem with the compilation.
Thanks for you suggestions and for any future help.
I'm at wit's ends here and need some help.
I've downloaded and compiled iconv versions 1.13 and 1.14 -
libiconv.so.2.5.0 and libiconv.so.2.5.1 and copied the iconv all over,
replacing the native iconv on my Solaris machine.
Still when I try to run the configure I get:
checking iconv.h
As I said in my email: help I appreciate - sarcasm not so much.
I re-read the manual - just in case I'd missed something and still do not
have any idea. The manual, BTW, needs some serious help for it to be useful
to its intended audiance - people who don't already know how to install R.
For
Sorry, but IMHO saying read the manual does not constitute actual help.
But here it is from the manual:
A suitably comprehensive iconv function is essential. The R usage requires
iconv to be able to translate between latin1 and UTF-8, to recognize
(as the current encoding) and ASCII, and to
