fortran compiler seg fault

[Bud Davis]

--- Jon Erik Ween <jween@klaru-baycrest.on.ca> wrote:

> HI!
> 
> I'm trying to compile packages for the R stats
> system (on a vanilla  
> FC6 with the full development environment installed)
> but keep getting  
> seg faults for various compilations that seem to
> have to do with  
> Fortran. Not being very well versed with Fortran and
> not finding  
> anything on the R lists  I was wondering if the gcc
> crowd had any  
> ideas? Here's the output, not much, but all there
> is:
> 
> [root@luther Desktop]# R CMD INSTALL ./mvtnorm
> * Installing *source* package 'mvtnorm' ...
> ** libs
> gfortran   -fpic  -O2 -g -c mvt.f -o mvt.o
> mvt.f: In function 'mvkrsv':
> mvt.f:1480: internal compiler error: Segmentation
> fault
> 
> This also happens if I try to compile "mvtnorm"
> outside the R  
> environment.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Jon
> 
>

let's check the easiest thing first.  The program you
are compiling may need a lot of stack space, and by
default shell's do not allocate very much.

if you are using tcsh the command is:

"limit stacksize unlimited"

bash and the other shells have similar commands.

give this a try, and if the problem still exists then
we may have a problem in gfortran.


HTH,
bud davis