[R] Compiling R on RS6000 AIX 4.3

[Thomas Lumley]

On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Martin Maechler wrote:

> >>>>> "Peter" == Peter Cameron <peter.cameron at enscitech.com> writes:
> 
>     Peter> I've been searching through the R help archives and came across
>     Peter> only one AIX compilation question in March, which received no
>     Peter> public responses. I'm currently having the same problems with
>     Peter> the "Illegal instruction" and core dump of running R 1.0.1 on
>     Peter> AIX 4.3.
> 
>     Peter> Firstly, the R distribution was missing some FORTRAN routines,
> No!
> You didn't search enough.

I think it's more complicated than that.  The last time I tried compiling
R on AIX there was a configure problem with the BLAS functions.  The
library libblas existed but the functions had the wrong names (due to
differences in use of underscores by fortran compilers). This meant that R
didn't compile its own BLAS but couldn't link to the system one either. I
thought this had been fixed, though. 

I got it to work using gcc/g77 and compiling --without-blas.  I don't know
if the people at CMU who use AIX have more options that work.

There is a real problem with some C/Fortran combinations on AIX.

	-thomas

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