From thomas@biostat.washington.edu  Thu Jun  4 18:42:45 1998
From: thomas@biostat.washington.edu (Thomas Lumley)
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1998 10:42:45 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Snapshot won't configure on SunOS 5.3
In-Reply-To: <Pine.ULT.3.91.980604112642.8392I@mathfs.math.montana.edu>
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95.980604103652.11242B-100000@chekov>

On Thu, 4 Jun 1998, Jim Robison-Cox wrote:
>    I'm trying to install the R-Snapshot which I downloaded a few hours
> ago and I'm having a problem I can't trace.  My system is
> 
>  Sun SPARC, SunOS 5.3 : 1996
> 

> checking for g77... g77
> checking for underscore after Fortran symbols... configure: error: Nothing worked - cannot use FORTRAN
> *******End of ./configure output *********************************************
> 
> And make will not work.
> 

> 
> The new configure seems quite different.  Any pointers?
> 

It is very different -- we now _require_ a FORTRAN compiler.  It appears
that configure found g77 (which is the first one it looks for) and then
couldn't get it to work properly. You can edit the file config.site to
specify the name of your FORTRAN compiler (presumably you have f77).


Thomas Lumley
UW Biostatistics


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Snapshot won't configure on SunOS 5.3
Thomas Lumley