Hi, Dirk.

2009/12/15 Dirk Eddelbuettel <[email protected]>:
>
> On 15 December 2009 at 09:50, Nobuhiro Iwamatsu wrote:
> | Package: r-base
> | Version: 2.10.1-1
> | Severity: important
> | Tags: patch
> | User: [email protected]
> | Usertags: sh4
> | X-Debbugs-CC: [email protected]
>
> Grrrr. That is a new upstream version that came out today after 10 days with
> prereleases.  Too bad you didn;t test against the pre-releases...

Oh, sorry.
I got possible to build R just the other day.

>
> | Hi,
> |
> | I am now trying to run Debian on Renesas SH(sh4) CPU.
> | http://buildd.debian-ports.org/status/architecture.php?suite=unstable&a=sh4
> |
> | r-base FTBFS on SH4.
> | Because configure included in r-base is created in old autoconf.
> |
> | -----
> | checking how to get verbose linking output from gcc -std=gnu99... -v
> | checking for C libraries of gcc -std=gnu99...  -little
> | -L/usr/lib/gcc/sh4-linux-gnu/4.3.4
> | -L/usr/lib/gcc/sh4-linux-gnu/4.3.4/../../.. -lgcc_s
> | checking for dummy main to link with Fortran 77 libraries... unknown
> | configure: error: linking to Fortran libraries from C fails
> | -----
> |
> | This become the error by the following contents in config.log.
> | -----
> | configure:27813: result:  -little -L/usr/lib/gcc/sh4-linux-gnu/4.3.4
> | -L/usr/lib/gcc/sh4-linux-gnu/4.3.4/../../.. -lgcc_s
> | configure:27944: checking for dummy main to link with Fortran 77 libraries
> | configure:27988: gcc -std=gnu99 -o conftest -g -O2   conftest.c -ldl
> | -lm   -little -lgfortran -lm >&5
> | /usr/bin/ld.real: cannot find -little
> | collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> | -----
> |
> | Could you update confiugre with new autoconf?
> | Or please apply the patch which I attached.
> | This is patch for quick fix.
>
> (Some members of) R upstream use Debian for development. Can you indicate
> which autoconf versions in Debian are good enough ?

This problem is revised by the following patches.
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2008-10/msg00039.html

Autoconf which this revision is taken in is autoconf-2.64.
And autoconf of Debian is 2.65-3 now.

>
> Also, before you send me bug reports for every binary that I upload:  Is
> there a way to fix this a little better programmatically ?
>
Most of source pachages which use gfortran and configure was made in
old autoconf became the object of this problem.

Best regards,
  Nobuhiro
-- 
Nobuhiro Iwamatsu
   iwamatsu at {nigauri.org / debian.org}
   GPG ID: 40AD1FA6



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