From Martin Maechler <maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch>  Tue Aug 11 15:34:30 1998
From: Martin Maechler <maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch> (Martin Maechler)
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 16:34:30 +0200
Subject: R-beta: base not loading
In-Reply-To: <98Aug11.103140edt.13458@mailgate.bank-banque-canada.ca> (message
 from Paul Gilbert on Tue, 11 Aug 1998 10:27:03 -0400)
Message-ID: <199808111434.QAA19036@sophie.ethz.ch>

>>>>> "PaulG" == Paul Gilbert <pgilbert@bank-banque-canada.ca> writes:

    PaulG> I just remembered, another thing which complicates this is that
    PaulG> older gcc's do not work with Solaris 2.6 so I had to upgrade to
    PaulG> gcc 2.8.1. The result is that I am not sure if this is

    PaulG> 1/ gcc 2.8.1 is not good for the current version of R

This is certainly not the case.
We have been using gcc 2.8.1 here (Solaris 2.5.x) for quite a while
with no problems.

    PaulG> 2/ my gcc 2.8.1 is not correctly configured

    PaulG> 3/ I need to be more careful to upgrade *all* parts of the
    PaulG> toolchain

    PaulG> My gut feeling is the same as Peter's (3/), but I haven't got a
    PaulG> clue how to track down the problem.

    PaulG> Paul

    PaulG> (PS. There also seem to be some problems making the f2c with gcc
    PaulG> 2.8.1. I've been using g77 so that isn't the problem.)

NOTE: Looking at  RHOME/library/base/R/base (which is the R file that is
	NOT correctly loaded by the internal C code),
      I now bet, that it is  .Alias(.)  which is failing;  more exactly,
      line 64
	------------------------------------------------------
	colours <- .Alias(colors)
	------------------------------------------------------
   
      That's (the only way?) how the error message
	------------------------------------------------------
	Error: Object "colors" not found 
	------------------------------------------------------
      can emerge...

[[this may help find gcc's problem, maybe...]]

Martin
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R-beta: base not loading
Martin Maechler