[R] R on AIX (>4.2)

[Friedrich Leisch]

[Taken to r-devel]

I tried 1-2 months ago to get R running on AIX ... besides some minor
things which I fixed in the sources everything compiled fine except
the dynloading :-)

It also seemed feasible to get dynloading to work, but you need a text
file containing the names of all objects a .so file wants to
export. As I didn't see an easy way of doing this at INSTALL time for
all our extension packages and wasn't in desperate need of R on AIX I
gave up at that point. I had also contact with people from essen on
this, and they also had no automatic procedure (like a Makefile fix or
so).

Look in the devel mail archives around may, there is a thread on AIX
where Arne Kovac explains the proper linker flags ... you might also
want to contact him to get their dynload.c. 

Fritz




>>>>> On Thu, 10 Jun 1999 08:47:55 +0200,
>>>>> Martin Maechler (MM) wrote:

MM> [Subject above:  You probably mean, ">= 4.2" right ?]
>>>>> "TomV" == Thomas Vogels <tov@infiniti.ece.cmu.edu> writes:

TomV> I'm determined to get R compiling & running on a machine
TomV> running AIX 4.2.
MM> Great!   
MM> Thank you in advance.

TomV> I've seen previous emails in the archive about
TomV> this topic.  The main obstacle is getting dynamic loading to
TomV> work, but it works for Tcl and hence is feasable.

MM> yes and yes.

TomV> Questions:
TomV> - is anybody _currently_ working with R on AIX?  
MM> don't know
TomV> - why have previous fixes to the sources not been introduced into
TomV> the released versions?
MM> I think we have never seen fixes patchable into the main sources.
MM> The only place I've heard that got it working was  uni-essen.de
MM> and they seem to have used an almost completely different version of
MM> src/unix/dynload.c  from Heiner Schwarte
MM> (and I think I've never seen their version..).

MM> Yes, it would really be great if this problem could finally be solved!

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