[Rd] AIX fails on startup with R-1.0.0

[Thomas J Vogels]

Kurt,

thanks for your help.  Your suggestion to use "LDCMD=cc SHLIBLD=cc"
for configure worked, I've got a working R again :-)

Other roadblocks I've encountered (and the reason I cc: r-devel):

-- ld/cc doesn't automatically include /usr/local/lib while gcc does.
This comes from the sytem installation here and has nothing to do with
R.  But having to add LIBS=-L/usr/local/lib may come as a surprise to
people who don't do this regularly.  Does configure check for the
existence of e.g. libz.a with cc or gcc?

-- the installation fails when I try to build in a special
subdirectory.  install-sh can't be found.  I've edited the Makefile to
use "build/tools/../$(INSTALL_DATA)".  (I guess build/$(INSTALL_DATA)
would be enough.)  I believe this worked on a sun.  Is this a
consequence of overriding install-sh on AIX in configure?

-- demo.so is not installed and demo(dyn.load) fails.  This is a
trivial matter if detected before 'rm -rf build' ...

-- there used to be a memory glitch when exiting R on AIX (and I think
Alpha).  This was fixed, but I now get this weird xmalloc statement
before startup:

$ echo "x <- 1; q()" | R BATCH
$ cat .R.Rout 

R : Copyright 2000, The R Development Core Team
Version 1.1.0 Under development (unstable) (March 27, 2000)

R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
Type    "?license" or "?licence" for distribution details.

R is a collaborative project with many contributors.
Type    "?contributors" for a list.

Type    "demo()" for some demos, "help()" for on-line help, or
        "help.start()" for a HTML browser interface to help.
Type    "q()" to quit R.

[Previously saved workspace restored]

xmalloc: out of virtual memory
R> invisible(options(echo = TRUE))
R> x <- 1; q()


Thanks again for getting R running on AIX again,
  -tom



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