From simon.urbanek at r-project.org  Thu May 29 23:54:32 2008
From: simon.urbanek at r-project.org (Simon Urbanek)
Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 17:54:32 -0400
Subject: [Rd] problem building R packages on RHEL 4 Linux with Intel
	compilers
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On May 29, 2008, at 5:45 PM, Mark Kimpel wrote:

> Simon, I scanned the config.log, which is too voluminous to insert  
> below, but it seems that gcc is still being looked for as the  
> compiler. See the lines from config.log below. Mark
>
> Thread model: posix
> gcc version 3.4.6 20060404 (Red Hat 3.4.6-9)
> configure:4824: $? = 0
> configure:4831: gcc -V >&5
> gcc: `-V' option must have argument
> configure:4834: $? = 1
> configure:4857: checking for C compiler default output file name
> configure:4884: gcc -fast -unroll -wd188 -I/usr/local/include -L -L - 
> L/usr/local/lib64 conftest.c  >&5
> gcc: unrecognized option `-wd188'
> cc1: error: unrecognized command line option "-fast"

^^ there you go: "-fast" is not supported by your gcc and "-wd188" is  
ignored (whatever you're trying achieve with that) ... it's there in  
plain english ;).

Cheers,
Simon


>
> configure:4887: $? = 1
> configure:4925: result:
> configure: failed program was:
> | /* confdefs.h.  */
>
> # Then the tail end of config.log
>
> r_cc_lo_rules_frag=''
> r_cc_rules_frag=''
> r_cxx_rules_frag=''
> r_objc_rules_frag=''
>
> ## ----------- ##
> ## confdefs.h. ##
> ## ----------- ##
>
> #define PACKAGE_NAME "R"
> #define PACKAGE_TARNAME "R"
> #define PACKAGE_VERSION "2.7.0"
> #define PACKAGE_STRING "R 2.7.0"
> #define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT "r-bugs at R-project.org"
> #define PACKAGE "R"
> #define VERSION "2.7.0"
> #define R_PLATFORM "x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu"
> #define R_CPU "x86_64"
> #define R_VENDOR "unknown"
> #define R_OS "linux-gnu"
> #define Unix 1
> #define R_ARCH ""
>
> configure: exit 77
>
>
> On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 5:35 PM, Simon Urbanek <simon.urbanek at r-project.org 
> > wrote:
>
> On May 29, 2008, at 5:01 PM, Mark Kimpel wrote:
>
> I am installing within my home folder, see the ./configure options.  
> I've never had a permission problem before and, like I said, if I  
> don't put all the Intel-specific flags in the ./configure,  
> everything works fine.
>
>
> This has nothing to do with the executable bit and/or permissions -  
> this is about the compiler rejecting your flags. Have a look in  
> config.log that's where you'll find out what the compiler didn't  
> like (and the error clearly tells you that ;)).
>
> Cheers,
> Simon
>
>
> On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 4:41 PM, Esmail Bonakdarian <esmail.js at gmail.com 
> >
> wrote:
>
> Mark Kimpel wrote:
>
>
> checking for gcc... gcc
> checking for C compiler default output file name...
> configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
> See `config.log' for more details.
>
>
> Are you running this as root? Or do you have the right
> privileges for the install?
>
> The "cannot create executables" looks like a permission problem
>
> Esmail
>
>
>
>
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[Rd] problem building R packages on RHEL 4 Linux with Intel compilers
Simon Urbanek