[Rd] Build R on Haiku
Joe S
unlikely.combination at gmail.com
Mon Aug 31 15:55:10 CEST 2015
On 31 August 2015 at 15:21, Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> On 14/08/2015 15:19, Joe S wrote:
>
>> Are there any checks I can do to the R binary to test if it works
>> properly?
>>
>
> This does not seem to be about the R binary, but about dynamically loaded
> modules. (All those export lines are non-standard, BTW, and your output is
> not from an ab initio build so we don't know e.g. how tools.so was built.)
> The meat is
>
Yes, because etc/ldpaths doesn't get configured properly so I edited
manually. I should fix the configure script to identify all the environment
variables properly first. It may be causing problems further along.
> > Error in .Call(PS_sigs, 1L) :
> > first argument must be a string (of length 1) or native symbol
> reference
>
> That comes from package tools, which contains the R code
>
> PS_sigs <- getDLLRegisteredRoutines("tools")[[c(".Call", "ps_sigs")]]
> SIGHUP <- .Call(PS_sigs, 1L)
>
> So, startup R from the top-level build directory with something like
>
> env R_DEFAULT_PACKAGES=NULL bin/R
>
> and at the prompt run
>
> dyn.load("src/library/tools/src/tools.so")
> getLoadedDLLs() # should include a line for tools
> getDLLRegisteredRoutines("tools")
>
Indeed, I got that far myself in the meantime.
> getLoadedDLLs()
Filename Dynamic.Lookup
base base FALSE
tools /Store/d2/library/tools/libs/tools.so TRUE
>getDLLRegisteredRoutines("tools")
data frame with 0 columns and 0 rows
> My guess is that does not list any symbols, in particular not ps_sigs.
>
> We can only speculate as to what went wrong (visibility issues? Mapping
> symbols to u/case? ...).
For now I will keep digging into what dyn.load() is doing and why the
symbols are missing. Any tips are appreciated.
Thanks
Joe
> nm -g library/tools/libs/tools.so
00004178 B __bss_start
U __ctype_get_mb_cur_max
w __cxa_finalize
w __deregister_frame_info
w __register_frame_info
00004178 D _edata
00004198 B _end
00002951 T _fini
00004170 D _gSharedObjectHaikuABI
00004174 D _gSharedObjectHaikuVersion
00000b54 T _init
U fclose
U ferror
U fopen
U fread
U free
U get_image_symbol
U INTEGER
U kill
U LENGTH
U libintl_dgettext
U malloc
U mbcslocale
U memcpy
U R_CHAR
U R_chk_calloc
U R_chk_free
U R_chk_realloc
000019a0 T R_init_tools
U R_NaInt
U R_NaString
U R_NilValue
U R_registerRoutines
U R_useDynamicSymbols
U realloc
U Rf_allocVector
U Rf_asInteger
U Rf_asLogical
U Rf_coerceVector
U Rf_error
U Rf_getCharCE
U Rf_install
U Rf_isString
U Rf_length
U Rf_mbrtowc
U Rf_mkChar
U Rf_mkCharCE
U Rf_protect
U Rf_ScalarInteger
U Rf_ScalarLogical
U Rf_setAttrib
U Rf_translateChar
U Rf_unprotect
U Rf_warning
U Rprintf
U SET_STRING_ELT
U sprintf
U strcmp
U STRING_ELT
U strlen
U strncmp
U TYPEOF
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