[R] Installation problem on SGI IRIX6.5

[Prof Brian Ripley]

You have a large number of non-IRIX paths in your configure. That is 
almost certainly your problem: other people _have_ successfully built R 
2.1.x on IRIX 6.5.  In particular, you seem to have a broken version of 
gettext in your non-IRIX directories which is not declaring ngettext.

If you cannot use a less eclectic collection of software, run
configure --help and see how to use the provided gettext (probably via
--with-included-gettext).  Or use --disable-nls.

On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, Xiao Jianfeng wrote:

> 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 !
>
>

-- 
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