Success compiling R v 1.8.0

[Doug White]

On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, Michael L. Squires wrote:

> The "R" statistics port (ports/math/R-letter) is at version 1.7.0.  Being
> the impatient type I tried compiling the recently released 1.8.0 using
> the same Makefile (with 1.7 changed to 1.8) and a new MD5 value, and
> had no new problems compiling.
>
> R v.1.7 and v 1.8 trigger a bug in GCC (internal compiler error) and the
> workaround is to wait for the bug to trigger, then compile that particular
> piece of code using "-O2" rather than "-O", and then execute "make" again.

The gcc folks tend to be interested in this sort of thing.  You might want
to follow the instructions given and report the bug.

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