[Rd] R 3.2.2 64 bit compilation error on AIX

[Vinh Nguyen]

On Oct 8, 2015 11:36 PM, "Martin Maechler" <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch>
wrote:
>
> >>>>> Vinh Nguyen <vinhdizzo at gmail.com>
> >>>>>     on Thu, 8 Oct 2015 20:21:32 -0700 writes:
>
>     > Ahh, sorry for not googling the error message.  Found
>     > [this](
http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Error-compiling-R-2-10-1-on-AIX-td1017862.html
)
>     > post that suggests modifying /src/extra/tre/tre-internal.h
>     > (
https://r-forge.r-project.org/scm/viewvc.php/patches/aix_R210_tre.patch?view=markup&root=aix
)
>     > for AIX 64 bit.
>
>     > Is it possible to add this information to the AIX section
>     > of the R-admin manual?  Thanks.
>
> Actually, I think we (R Core) should just apply that patch to the
>  R/src/extras/tre/ sources.

That sould be even better!

>
> But this does not seem to be related to your original problem
> where compilation stopped during tools package building,
> or does it ?

Yes, the patch did fix the error where the tools package was building. It
also fixed it for [others](
http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Error-compiling-R-2-10-1-on-AIX-td1017862.html
).

Thanks.

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