[Rd] problem building R-patched on x86-64 with PGI 6.1

[Liaw, Andy]

Dear R-devel,

[I'm not sure if this is appropriate for R-devel.  If not, I'm more than
happy to move it to R-help.]

As those of you who saw my post on R-help know, I've been trying to build
R-patched on a dual Opteron box running Scyld Beowulf, using the PGI 6.1
compilers.  The build went fine, but I couldn't get it to pass make
check-all.  Jennifer Lai, who reported success with PGI 6.0 previously,
seems to have the same problem with 6.1.  Here are the particulars:

Since R requires IEEE754 conformance, the flag to use for PGI is -Kieee.
(BTW, configure still insist on sticking in -mieee-fp, which generates a
warning.)  With that flag, the build runs into trouble with the first
example in ?optim.  Running it by hand gives me:

> optim(c(-1.2,1), fr, control=list(trace=6))
  Nelder-Mead direct search function minimizer
function value for initial parameters = 24.200000
  Scaled convergence tolerance is 3.60608e-07
Stepsize computed as 0.120000
BUILD              3 24.200000 7.095296
REFLECTION         5 15.080000 4.541696
REFLECTION         7 7.095296 4.456256
[...]
HI-REDUCTION     191 0.000002 0.000000
LO-REDUCTION     193 0.000001 0.000000

and the process just hangs (until ctrl-z and kill -9).

If I build R without the -Kieee flag, make check-all fails at arith-true.R,
in particular, the following:

> pretty(pi, n = 10) - 2:5
[1] -2.220446e-16 -4.440892e-16 -8.881784e-16 -8.881784e-16

whereas the build with the -Kieee flag gives:

> pretty(pi, n = 10) - 2:5
[1] 0 0 0 0

and can pass the arith-true.R test.

The configuration is as follows:

export PG_HOME=/usr/pgi/linux86-64/6.1 
~/Rbuild/R-patched/configure \
     CC=pgcc \
     CFLAGS="-g -Kieee" \
     CPPFLAGS="-I$PG_HOME/include -I$PG_HOME/include/CC" \
     CPICFLAGS=-fpic \
     F77=pgf95 \
     FFLAGS="-g -Kieee"\
     FPICFLAGS=-fpic \
     CXX=pgCC \
     CXXFLAGS="-g -Kieee" \
     CXXPICFLAGS=-fpic \
     SHLIB_CXXLDFLAGS=-shared \
     SHLIB_LDFLAGS=-shared \
     LDFLAGS="-L$PG_HOME/libso -L/usr/lib64 -L/usr/X11R6/lib64" \
     --without-tcltk \
     --with-blas="-L/usr/pgi/linux86-64/6.1/libso -lacml"

[The pgf95 (or pgf90) is needed for linking against ACML to work.  This
should be unrelated as optim is in C.]

I'd very much appreciate any pointers.

Best,
Andy


Andy Liaw, PhD
Biometrics Research    PO Box 2000 RY33-300
Merck Research Labs        Rahway, NJ 07065
andy_liaw(a)merck.com          732-594-0820