[R] R 1.9.1 compilation error (on AIX 5.1)

[Liaw, Andy]

> From: Prof Brian Ripley
> 
> We do have alpha/beta test periods for new releases of R, so 
> would anyone 
> who did test AIX please confirm that they did succeed.  (No 
> one reported 
> an error, including yourself: are any AIX users interested in helping 
> having R available for AIX?)   It is much better to have such reports 
> during alpha test, or at least beta test.

I just tried compiling R-1.9.1 as 64-bit on powerpc-ibm-aix5.1.0.0 using
xlc/xlf.  The compile went fine, and the only part of make check that failed
was internet.R (since there's no 'Net access from that box).  The GCC on
that box is probably too outdated to try, unfortunately.

Best,
Andy

 
> On Wed, 23 Jun 2004, Frankie Cheung wrote:
> 
> > Dear Sir/Madam,
> > 
> > I encounter some problem duuring compilation of R 1.9.1 on 
> AIX 5.1, after
> > running "./configure" then I type "make" to compile:
> > 
> > # make
> > .....
> > gcc -I../../src/extra/zlib -I../../src/extra/bzip2 
> -I../../src/extra/pcre
> > -I. -I../../src/include -I../../src/include -I/usr/local/include
> > -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -mno-fp-in-toc  -g -O2 -c registration.c -o 
> registration.o
> > g77   -g -O2 -c xxxpr.f -o xxxpr.o
> > gcc -Wl,-bdynamic -Wl,-bE:../../etc/R.exp -Wl,-bM:SRE 
> -L/usr/local/lib -o
> > R.bin  CConverters.o Rdynload.o RNG.o apply.o arithmetic.o 
> apse.o array.o
> > attrib.o base.o bind.o builtin.o character.o coerce.o 
> colors.o complex.o
> > connections.o context.o cov.o cum.o dcf.o datetime.o debug.o devPS.o
> > devPicTeX.o deparse.o deriv.o devices.o dotcode.o dounzip.o 
> dstruct.o
> > duplicate.o engine.o envir.o errors.o eval.o format.o 
> fourier.o gram.o
> > gram-ex.o graphics.o identical.o internet.o iosupport.o 
> lapack.o list.o
> > logic.o main.o mapply.o match.o memory.o model.o names.o 
> objects.o optim.o
> > optimize.o options.o par.o paste.o pcre.o platform.o plot.o plot3d.o
> > plotmath.o print.o printarray.o printvector.o printutils.o qsort.o
> > random.o regex.o relop.o saveload.o scan.o seq.o 
> serialize.o size.o sort.o
> > source.o split.o sprintf.o subassign.o subscript.o subset.o 
> summary.o
> > unique.o util.o version.o vfonts.o registration.o xxxpr.o
> > ../unix/libunix.a ../appl/libappl.a ../nmath/libnmath.a   
> -L/usr/local/lib
> > -L/usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/powerpc-ibm-aix5.1.0.0/3.3.3
> > 
> -L/usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/powerpc-ibm-aix5.1.0.0/3.3.3/../../..
> /../powerpc-ibm-aix5.1.0.0/lib
> > 
> -L/usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/powerpc-ibm-aix5.1.0.0/3.3.3/../../..
>  -lfrtbegin
> > -lg2c -lm -lgcc_s
> > /usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/powerpc-ibm-aix5.1.0.0/3.3.3/libgcc.a -lg
> > /lib/crt0.o ../extra/zlib/libz.a ../extra/bzip2/libbz2.a
> > ../extra/pcre/libpcre.a -ldl -lm -lc
> > /usr/local/bin/ld: target dynamic not found
> > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> > make[3]: *** [R.bin] Error 1
> > make[3]: Leaving directory `/d1/ftcheung_GoIn/tmp/R-1.9.1/src/main'
> > make[2]: *** [R] Error 2
> > make[2]: Leaving directory `/d1/ftcheung_GoIn/tmp/R-1.9.1/src/main'
> > make[1]: *** [R] Error 1
> > make[1]: Leaving directory `/d1/ftcheung_GoIn/tmp/R-1.9.1/src'
> > make: *** [R] Error 1
> > 
> > I've tried to use AIX xlc compiler and GCC compiler (v2.95 
> and v3.3.3) but
> > all of them result to the same error message shown above. 
> Can anyone give
> > me some hint of how to solve it?
> 
> You appear not to be using the standard loader 
> (`/usr/local/bin/ld').  
> Please set MAIN_LDFLAGS (ideally in config.site before 
> configure, but you
> can edit Makeconf now) to whatever your loader needs.  If 
> this is GNU ld
> then I guess you need -Wl,--export-dynamic.
> 
> -- 
> Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
> Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
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