From gregor.gorjanc at bfro.uni-lj.si  Sat Mar  3 21:42:52 2007
From: gregor.gorjanc at bfro.uni-lj.si (Gregor Gorjanc)
Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2007 21:42:52 +0100
Subject: [Rd] Segmentation fault on bin/R --version in R-devel
Message-ID: <45E9DDCC.7040705@bfro.uni-lj.si>

Hello!

I have tried to build and install latest version of R, but I am not able
to perform the install, due to seg. fault. I did the following after SVN
checkout and wget for recommendeds:

./configure --prefix=/usr/local/R-devel
make
make install

...
...
  tcut                              text    html    latex   example
  tobin                             text    html    latex   example
  untangle.specials                 text    html    latex   example
  veteran                           text    html    latex
** building package indices ...
* DONE (survival)
make[2]: Leaving directory
`/home/share/projectSoft/R/R/src/library/Recommended'
make[1]: Leaving directory
`/home/share/projectSoft/R/R/src/library/Recommended'
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/share/projectSoft/R/R/doc/manual'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `front-matter'.
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `html-non-svn'.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/share/projectSoft/R/R/doc/manual'
SVN-REVISION is unchanged
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/share/projectSoft/R/R/m4'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `install'.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/share/projectSoft/R/R/m4'
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/share/projectSoft/R/R/tools'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `install'.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/share/projectSoft/R/R/tools'
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/share/projectSoft/R/R/doc'
installing doc ...
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ../NEWS "/usr/local/R-devel/lib/R/doc"
sh: line 1: 15129 Segmentation fault      ../bin/R --version 2>/dev/null
help2man: can't get `--version' info from ../bin/R
make[1]: *** [R.1] Error 139
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/share/projectSoft/R/R/doc'
make: *** [install] Error 1

gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)
Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

As can be seen I have Debian GNU/Linux.
Any clues?

Thank you!

Gregor



[Rd] Segmentation fault on bin/R --version in R-devel
Gregor Gorjanc