[Rd] X11 and vfonts modules on AIX 5.2

[Prof Brian Ripley]

I think rather you want to add $(LIBM) to the end of ...la_LIBADD.

We've seen things like this before, but OTOH people have succeeded in 
building R-2.2.1 on AIX 5.2/3.

On Fri, 12 May 2006, Sheth, Jagat K wrote:

>
> I am trying to get R-2.2.1 to pass make check on an AIX 5.2 at work (I know R-2.2.1 is not the latest release, but I encountered make errors in my attempts to install either R-2.3.0 or the R-patched_2006-05-10 on the version of AIX I am on. I will post those errors in a separate posting from this.)
>
> So far, configure and make finish without error for R-2.2.1 using gnu make, gcc-4.1.0, and
>
> CC=/usr/local/bin/gcc
> F77=/usr/local/bin/gfortran
> CXX=/usr/local/bin/g++
> MAIN_LDFLAGS=-Wl,-brtl
> SHLIB_LDFLAGS=-Wl,-G
> CFLAGS='-g -O'
> FFLAGS='-O'
> CXXFLAGS='-g -O'
>
> bash-3.00$ ./configure --disable-nls
>
> ...
>
> R is now configured for powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0
>
>  Source directory:          .
>  Installation directory:    /usr/local
>
>  C compiler:                /usr/local/bin/gcc -mno-fp-in-toc -g -O
>  C++ compiler:              /usr/local/bin/g++  -g -O
>  Fortran compiler:          /usr/local/bin/gfortran  -O
>
>  Interfaces supported:      X11
>  External libraries:        readline
>  Additional capabilities:   MBCS
>  Options enabled:           R profiling
>
>  Recommended packages:      yes
>
>
> After make, I can run R-2.2.1 from its build directory but I get the following X11 module loading error when trying to plot
>
>
>> plot(1:10)
>
> Error in X11() : X11 module cannot be loaded
> In addition: Warning message:
> unable to load shared library '/home/js36954/src/R-2.2.1/modules/R_X11.so':
>  rtld: 0712-001 Symbol log10 was referenced
>      from module /home/js36954/src/R-2.2.1/modules/R_X11.so(), but a runtime definition of the symbol was not found.
> rtld: 0712-001 Symbol floor was referenced
>      from module /home/js36954/src/R-2.2.1/modules/R_X11.so(), but a runtime definition of the symbol was not found.
> rtld: 0712-001 Symbol pow was referenced
>      from module /home/js36954/src/R-2.2.1/modules/R_X11.so(), but a runtime definition of the symbol was not found.
> rtld: 0712-001 Symbol sin was referenced
>      from module /home/js36954/src/R-2.2.1/modules/R_X11.so(), but a runtime definition of the symbol was not found.
> rtld: 0712-001 Symbol cos was referenced
>      from module /home/js36954/src/R-2.2.1/modules/R_X11.so(), but a runtime definition of the symbol was not found.
> rtld: 0712-001 Symbol tan was referenced
>      from module /home/js36954/src/R-2.2.1/modules
>
> This error didn't occur for R-2.0.1 which passes make check using the above config.site settings on the same AIX 5.2.
>
> Searching the archives on R-devel for similar AIX problems, I tried a diff between the X11 makefiles for R-2.0.1 and R-2.2.1
>
> diff ~/src/R-2.0.1/src/modules/X11/Makefile ~/src/R-2.2.1/src/modules/X11/Makefile
> 54c54
> <       $(SHLIB_LINK) -o $@ $(R_X11_la_LDFLAGS) $(R_X11_la_OBJECTS) $(R_X11_la_LIBADD) $(LIBS)
> ---
>
>>     $(SHLIB_LINK) -o $@ $(R_X11_la_LDFLAGS) $(R_X11_la_OBJECTS) $(R_X11_la_LIBADD)
>
>
> ...
>
> Adding $(LIBS) at the end of line 54 in the R-2.2.1 X11 makefile caused the loading error above to go away, but I don't know if this is what I should be doing ...
>
> After editing that makefile, I was able to plot in R-2.2.1 but eventually encountered a similar error on the vfonts module during make check
>
>
>> Vf <- c("serif", "plain")
>> text(4, 2, "\\#J2438\\#J2421\\#J2451\\#J2473", vfont = Vf)
>
> Warning: unable to load shared library '/home/js36954/src/R-2.2.1/modules/vfonts.so':
>  rtld: 0712-001 Symbol cos was referenced
>      from module /home/js36954/src/R-2.2.1/modules/vfonts.so(), but a runtime definition
>      of the symbol was not found.
> rtld: 0712-001 Symbol sin was referenced
>      from module /home/js36954/src/R-2.2.1/modules/vfonts.so(), but a runtime definition
>      of the symbol was not found.
> Error in text.default(4, 2, "\\#J2438\\#J2421\\#J2451\\#J2473", vfont = Vf) :
>    Hershey fonts cannot be loaded
>
> A diff on the R-2.0.1 and R-2.2.1 vfonts module makefiles,
>
> diff ~/src/R-2.0.1/src/modules/vfonts/Makefile ~/src/R-2.2.1/src/modules/vfonts/Makefile
> 51c51
> <       $(SHLIB_LINK) -o $@ $(vfonts_la_LDFLAGS) $(vfonts_la_OBJECTS) $(vfonts_la_LIBADD) $(LIBS)
> ---
>
>>     $(SHLIB_LINK) -o $@ $(vfonts_la_LDFLAGS) $(vfonts_la_OBJECTS) $(vfonts_la_LIBADD)
>
>
> ...
>
> I added $(LIBS) at the end of the R-2.2.1 vfonts makefile, and the above error went away the next time I ran make check.
>
> So, where I am currently at is that I can get R-2.2.1 to pass make check on my AIX 5.2 with the above two makefile edits, but I am not sure how harmful that may be overall ...
>
> E.g. the plots I now get in R-2.2.1, after editing the X11 and vfonts makefiles, appear with darker axis labels and tick marks than in R-2.0.1, say.
>
> Any advice to help clean things up would be greatly appreciated. I would be happy to provide any additional details.
>
> Thanks,
> Jagat
>
>
>
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