[Rd] compile 2.4.1 for linux on power cpus SOLVED

[Andrew Ferris]

Thank you Ei-ji, 

That seems to have done it.

> .Machine$sizeof.pointer
[1] 8

So in total I've done the following to get it work:

Installed these readline rpms from the SLES10 media:

readline-devel-64bit-5.1-24.4
readline-devel-5.1-24.4

This is the configure command:

./configure CC="gcc -m64" /
CXX="gxx -m64" /
F77="gfortran -m64" / 
FC="gfortran -m64" /
CFLAGS="-mminimal-toc -fno-optimize-sibling-calls -g -O2" /
FFLAGS="-mminimal-toc -fno-optimize-sibling-calls -g -O2" /
LDFLAGS=-L/usr/lib64 /
--without-x

which gets this:

R is now configured for powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu

  Source directory:          .
  Installation directory:    /usr/local

  C compiler:                gcc -m64 -std=gnu99  -mminimal-toc -fno-optimize-sibling-calls -g -O2
  Fortran 77 compiler:       gfortran -m64  -mminimal-toc -fno-optimize-sibling-calls -g -O2

  C++ compiler:              gxx -m64
  Fortran 90/95 compiler:    gfortran -m64 -g -O2

  Interfaces supported:
  External libraries:        readline
  Additional capabilities:   iconv, MBCS, NLS
  Options enabled:           shared BLAS, R profiling

  Recommended packages:      yes

configure: WARNING: I could not determine CXXPICFLAGS.
configure: WARNING: I could not determine SHLIB_CXXLDFLAGS
configure: WARNING: I could not determine CXXPICFLAGS.
configure: WARNING: you cannot build DVI versions of the R manuals
configure: WARNING: you cannot build PDF versions of the R manuals
configure: WARNING: I could not determine a PDF viewer

And that gets through make with no errors. That's R 2.4.1 on SLES10 on a power5 CPU server. 

Thank-you to Peter Dalgaard and Prof. Ripley for their help with this.

Andrew Ferris
Network Support Analyst
iCAPTURE Research Centre
University of British Columbia

>>> "Ei-ji Nakama" <nakama at ki.rim.or.jp> 3/15/2007 7:01 PM >>>
2007/3/16, Andrew Ferris <aferris at mrl.ubc.ca>:
> I'm closer but still not quite there. Here's the configure command I'm using:
>
>  ./configure 'CC=gcc -m64' 'CXX=g++ -m64 -mminimal-toc' 'FC=gfortran -mc64 -fno-optimize-sibling-calls' 'F77=gfortran -m64 -fno-optimize-sibling-calls' 'LDFLAGS=-L/usr/lib64' R_PAPERSIZE='letter'

$ uname -a
Linux macg5 2.6.18-3-powerpc64 #1 SMP Mon Dec 4 15:40:16 CET 2006
ppc64 GNU/Linux

$ gcc -v
Using built-in specs.
Target: powerpc-linux-gnu
Configured with: ../src/configure -v
--enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,objc,obj-c++,treelang --prefix=/usr
--enable-shared --with-system-zlib --libexecdir=/usr/lib
--without-included-gettext --enable-threads=posix --enable-nls
--program-suffix=-4.1 --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-clocale=gnu
--enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-mpfr --disable-softfloat
--enable-targets=powerpc-linux,powerpc64-linux --with-cpu=default32
--enable-checking=release powerpc-linux-gnu
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)

$ gcc -print-multi-lib
.;@fPIC at mstrict-align
64;@m64 at fPIC@mstrict-align

$ ./configure CC="gcc -m64" \
                   CXX="gxx -m64" \
                   F77="gfortran -m64" \
                   FC="gfortran -m64" \
                   CFLAGS="-mminimal-toc -fno-optimize-sibling-calls -g -O2" \
                   FFLAGS="-mminimal-toc -fno-optimize-sibling-calls -g -O2" \
                   --without-x

$ file bin/exec/R
bin/exec/R: ELF 64-bit MSB executable, PowerPC 64-bit or cisco 7500,
version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.6.0, dynamically linked (uses shared
libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.0, not stripped

-- 
EI-JI Nakama  <nakama at ki.rim.or.jp>
"\u4e2d\u9593\u6804\u6cbb"  <nakama at ki.rim.or.jp>



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