[Rd] Re: [R] Cross build Makefile

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Mon, 21 Jun 2004, Iago Mosqueira wrote:

> O Lun, 2004-06-21 ás 08:00, Prof Brian Ripley escribiu:
> 
> > On Mon, 21 Jun 2004, Iago Mosqueira wrote:
> > 
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > I am trying to use Yan and Rossini's Makefile for cross building Windows
> > > versions of R packages in Linux with R 1.9.0. When compiling R with the
> > > mingw tools I get an error about expm1 being undeclared when first found
> > > at src/main/arithmetic.c:1019
> > > 
> > > If I fiddle a bit with it later on I also get errors about log1p bein
> > > undeclared.
> > > 
> > > Any idea what should I look for?
> > > 
> > > I am using R 1.9.0 in Debian, with R-mathlib avaliable, and gcc 3.3.
> > 
> > Did you build your own cross-compiler, or where did you get it from?
> 
> No, I got it following their indications, and I think it is from your
> webpage, is that recent enough?

Mine is now, but a copy of what was there a few months ago might not be.
Specifically

-rw-r--r--    1 ripley   bdr       6549268 Apr  2 16:04 mingw-cross2.tar.bz2

is fine.

> > log1p is definitely declared in math.h these days, but it used not to be, 
> > so that one might be due to using too old a cross-compiler.
> > 
> > For expm1, the Windows config.h has /* #undef HAVE_EXPM1 */ which means it 
> > is declared in Rmath.h and compiled up as part of libnmath.a.  Here all I 
> > can suggest is that you check the headers files are correct and that you 
> > are finding the ones for cross-compiling and not for Linux compiling 
> > (which can be a problem if the cross-compiler was built incorrectly or you 
> > configured R in that source tree without the right options).
> 
> I'll check it out. Thanks,

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