[R] Installation problem on SGI IRIX6.5

[Xiao Jianfeng]

Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

>Please do try reading the R-admin manual (as the INSTALL file asks you to: 
>it does not ask you to `surf on the net').
>
>  
>
Thanks a lot !

I have read the R-admin manual before turn to the internet,
but I didn't read it carefully. Sorry about that.


>The following section may help you:
>
>   To enable UTF-8 support, configure with default @option{--enable-mbcs}.
>   This will check for a large number of features, notably support for the
>   C99/UNIX98 wide character functions and for UTF-8 or MBCS support in
>   X11.  If enough of these are found, @code{MBCS} will be listed as one
>   of the ``Additional capabilities''
>
>so try --disable-mbcs if your OS has broken header files.  (It apparently 
>does have wctrans, but not the type it returns.)
>
>  
>
Yes, it does help.

Now I used the following command to configure according page 28(*B.7.5 
IRIX*):

"
env CC=cc F77=f77 CXX=CC CPPFLAGS="-I/user_data2/jfxiao/local/include 
-I/usr/freeware/include" LDFLAGS="-L/user_data2/jfxiao/local/lib 
-L/usr/freeware/lib32" CFLAGS="-O2" FFLAGS="-O2" CXXFLAGS="-O2" 
./configure --prefix=/user_data2/jfxiao/local --disable-mbcs 
--disable-nls MAKE=gmake
"

This command ran successfully, and get the following output:

"
R is now configured for mips-sgi-irix6.5

Source directory: .
Installation directory: /user_data2/jfxiao/local

C compiler: cc -OPT:IEEE_NaN_inf=ON -O2
C++ compiler: CC -OPT:IEEE_NaN_inf=ON -O2
Fortran compiler: f77 -OPT:IEEE_NaN_inf=ON -O2

Interfaces supported: X11
External libraries: readline, BLAS(generic)
Additional capabilities:
Options enabled: R profiling

Recommended packages: yes

configure: WARNING: you cannot build DVI versions of the R manuals
configure: WARNING: you cannot build info or html versions of the R manuals
configure: WARNING: you cannot build PDF versions of the R manuals
"

Then I ran `gmake` to make, but it fails.
I got the following error message:
"
cc -I../../src/extra/zlib -I../../src/extra/bzip2 -I../../src/extra/pcre 
-I. -I../../src/include -I../../src/include 
-I/user_data2/jfxiao/local/include -I/usr/freeware/include 
-DHAVE_CONFIG_H -OPT:IEEE_NaN_inf=ON -O2 -c errors.c -o errors.o
cc-1185 cc: WARNING File = errors.c, Line = 266
An enumerated type is mixed with another type.

dcall = CHAR(STRING_ELT(deparse1(call, 0, SIMPLEDEPARSE), 0));
^

*cc-1515 cc: ERROR File = errors.c, Line = 357
A value of type "int" cannot be assigned to an entity of type "char *".

header = ngettext("Warning message:\n", "Warning messages:\n",
^*

......
......
......

1 error detected in the compilation of "errors.c".
gmake[3]: *** [errors.o] Error 2
gmake[3]: Leaving directory 
`/user_data2/jfxiao/local/source/R/R-2.1.1/src/main'
gmake[2]: *** [R] Error 2
gmake[2]: Leaving directory 
`/user_data2/jfxiao/local/source/R/R-2.1.1/src/main'
gmake[1]: *** [R] Error 1
gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/user_data2/jfxiao/local/source/R/R-2.1.1/src'
gmake: *** [R] Error 1
"

It's strange since the return value of ngettext() do have a value type 
of "char *".

Can somebody tell me why ?


>Now we know of the existence of such an OS, we can add a check.  Are 
>wctrans and wctrans_t defined anywhere else?
>  
>
I've run `grep "wctrans_t" */* ` in "/usr/include“ but get nothing.



I've also tried to complie with gcc.

Acoording the instruction on page 28(*B.7.5 IRIX*), I used the following
command to configure:
"
env F77=f77 FFLAGS="-O2" CPPFLAGS="-I/user_data2/jfxiao/local/include 
-I/usr/freeware/include" LDFLAGS="-L/user_data2/jfxiao/local/lib 
-L/usr/freeware/lib32" ./configure --prefix=/user_data2/jfxiao/local 
--disable-mbcs --disable-nls MAKE=gmake
"
(Note that I have to specify F77=f77 or the configure step will fail.)

The command run without problem and gave out the success message:
"

R is now configured for mips-sgi-irix6.5

Source directory: .
Installation directory: /user_data2/jfxiao/local

C compiler: gcc -g -O2
C++ compiler: g++ -g -O2
Fortran compiler: f77 -OPT:IEEE_NaN_inf=ON -O2

Interfaces supported: X11
External libraries: readline, BLAS(generic)
Additional capabilities:
Options enabled: R profiling

Recommended packages: yes

configure: WARNING: you cannot build DVI versions of the R manuals
configure: WARNING: you cannot build info or html versions of the R manuals
configure: WARNING: you cannot build PDF versions of the R manuals

"

Then I ran `gmake` to compile, but it failed again.
Next is the last part of the output:

"
....

f77 -OPT:IEEE_NaN_inf=ON -O2 -c xxxpr.f -o xxxpr.o
gcc -L/user_data2/jfxiao/local/lib -L/usr/freeware/lib32 -o R.bin 
Rmain.o CConverters.o CommandLineArgs.o Rdynload.o Renviron.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 deparse.o deriv.o dotcode.o dounzip.o 
dstruct.o duplicate.o engine.o envir.o errors.o eval.o format.o 
fourier.o gevents.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 registration.o 
relop.o saveload.o scan.o seq.o serialize.o size.o sort.o source.o 
split.o sprintf.o startup.o subassign.o subscript.o subset.o summary.o 
sysutils.o unique.o util.o version.o vfonts.o xxxpr.o ../unix/libunix.a 
../appl/libappl.a ../nmath/libnmath.a -lblas -L/usr/lib32/mips4/r10000 
-L/usr/lib32/mips4 -lftn -lm ../extra/zlib/libz.a 
../extra/bzip2/libbz2.a ../extra/pcre/libpcre.a -lreadline -ldl -lm
ld32: WARNING 84 : /usr/lib32/libdl.so is not used for resolving any symbol.
ld32: ERROR 33 : Unresolved text symbol "ngettext" -- 1st referenced by 
errors.o.
Use linker option -v to see when and which objects, archives and dsos 
are loaded.
ld32: INFO 152: Output file removed because of error.
collect2: ld returned 2 exit status
gmake[3]: *** [R.bin] Error 1
gmake[3]: Leaving directory 
`/user_data2/jfxiao/local/source/R/R-2.1.1/src/main'
gmake[2]: *** [R] Error 2
gmake[2]: Leaving directory 
`/user_data2/jfxiao/local/source/R/R-2.1.1/src/main'
gmake[1]: *** [R] Error 1
gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/user_data2/jfxiao/local/source/R/R-2.1.1/src'
gmake: *** [R] Error 1
"

I have read the manual again and ased some people in our lab, but get no 
helpful information.

I'm not familiar about compilation in Unix, so I come here to bother again.

Thanks again for any help !