[Rd] PR#9295

[Peter Dalgaard]

watplatt at us.ibm.com writes:

> I asked a question that might help me track down what changed between 
> 2.3.1 that did build and the 2.4.0 version that will not build.  Some of 
> the undefined names the linker was complaining about looked like #define 
> symbols that were not picked up by configure.  The first thing I was 
> hoping for was to find out if this problem looked familiar?  Whether or 
> not, I'm willing to try to work on it, but hope I can get reasonable 
> answers to honest questions....

Well, you should have seen the snide remarks that I decided to keep to
myself.... (Along the lines of "please tell us the fix in time for the
_next_ release")

Anyways, AFAIK those entry points are not supposed to be macros. They
are also undefined symbols in tools.so on Fedora, so your issue would
seem to be with the linker. The culprit is likely changes to the
symbol registration mechanism, or an unforeseen complication of this:

    o   configure now defaults to 'run-time linking' on AIX
        (and AIX < 4.2 is no longer allowed), using -bexpall rather
        than export/import files.  If this works, it allows R to be
        built in the same way as other Unix-alikes, including with R
        as a shared library and with a shared BLAS.

Also, of course, check that you are doing a clean build and that the
previous build is not somehow interfering.
 
> Dan
> 
> Saw:
> 
> IBM employee is unable to make AIX work: so why does he expect us to?
> 
> in response to:
> 
> From: watplatt at us.ibm.com
> To: R-bugs at biostat.ku.dk
> Subject: Unable to build
> Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 21:42:37 +0200 (CEST)
> 
> Full_Name: Daniel E. Platt
> Version: 2.4.0
> OS: AIX 5.3
> Submission from: (NULL) (129.34.20.23)
> 
> 
> Did a new build of gcc c,c++,gfortran v4.1.1, (re)built R 2.3.1 using
> config.site as spec'd in R-admin.pdf in sec C.9 as described by Jagat 
> Sheth,
> with addition of FC=gfortran (configure tried using f95, which is present 
> on the
> system, but won't bind with gcc's obj files).
> 
> 
> Applying the same to 4.1.1 produces the following:
> 
> make[4]: Leaving directory 
> `/geno4/watplatt/R/R-2.4.0/src/library/tools/src'
> Error in dyn.load(x, as.logical(local), as.logical(now)) : 
>         unable to load shared library
> '/geno4/watplatt/R/R-2.4.0/library/tools/libs/tools.so':
>   rtld: 0712-001 Symbol TYPEOF was referenced
>       from module /geno4/watplatt/R/R-2.4.0/library/tools/libs/tools.so(), 
> but a
> runtime definition
>       of the symbol was not found.
> rtld: 0712-001 Symbol Rf_error was referenced
>       from module /geno4/watplatt/R/R-2.4.0/library/tools/libs/tools.so(), 
> but a
> runtime definition
>       of the symbol was not found.
> rtld: 0712-001 Symbol Rf_asLogical was referenced
>       from module /geno4/watplatt/R/R-2.4.0/library/tools/libs/tools.so(), 
> but a
> runtime definition
>       of the symbol was not found.
> rtld: 0712-001 Symbol LENGTH was referenced
>       from module /geno4/watplatt/R/R-2.4.0/library/tools/libs/tools.so(), 
> but a
> runtime definition
>       of the symbol was not found.
> rtld: 0712-001 Symbol STRING_ELT was referenced
>       from module /geno4/watplatt/R/R-2.4.0/library/tools/libs/tools.so(), 
> bu
> Execution halted
> make[3]: *** [all] Error 1
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/geno4/watplatt/R/R-2.4.0/src/library/tools'
> make[2]: *** [R] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/geno4/watplatt/R/R-2.4.0/src/library'
> make[1]: *** [R] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/geno4/watplatt/R/R-2.4.0/src'
> make: *** [R] Error 1
> 
> Are there undefined #define's leaking in as code?
> 
> Dan
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Daniel E. Platt
> Bioinformatics and Pattern Discovery
> IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
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