[R] Symbol __f95_sign not found.

[Prof Brian Ripley]

Have you reconfigured and recompiled R?
If your conpilers have been updated, you may well need to do so.


On Thu, 27 Apr 2006, Rolf Turner wrote:

> Our computing services people have recently reconfigured the Sun
> compilers structure on our network, and I can no longer install, on
> our Sun/Solaris machine, a certain package (spatstat) with which I am
> heavily involved.  (The same problem may well pertain to other
> packages as well; I haven't yet experimented except with spatstat.)
>
> Strictly speaking I can ***install*** it, but when I try
> to ***load*** it I get an error message:
>
> ===+===+===+===+===+===+===+===+===+===+===+===+===+===+===+===+===+===+===
> > library(spatstat)
> Error in dyn.load(x, as.logical(local), as.logical(now)) :
>        unable to load shared library '/home/faculty/rolf/Rlib/spatstat/libs/spatstat.so':
>  ld.so.1: R: fatal: relocation error: file /home/faculty/rolf/Rlib/spatstat/libs/spatstat.so: symbol __f95_sign: referenced symbol not found
> Error in library(spatstat) : .First.lib failed for 'spatstat'
> ===+===+===+===+===+===+===+===+===+===+===+===+===+===+===+===+===+===+===
>
> so something is going wrong with the install.
>
> I did nm on spatstat.so, and sure enough got
>
> ===+===+===+===+===+===+===+===+===+===+===+===+===+===+===+===+===+===+===
> $ nm spatstat.so | grep f95
> [189]   |    185004|       4|OBJT |LOCL |0    |20     |__f95__happiness
>        .
>        .
>        .
> [195]   |    185008|       4|OBJT |LOCL |0    |20     |__f95__happiness
> [512]   |         0|       0|FUNC |GLOB |0    |UNDEF  |__f95_sign
> ===+===+===+===+===+===+===+===+===+===+===+===+===+===+===+===+===+===+===
>
> so, yep, it's undefined.  But what do I do about it?
>
> The ``R CMD INSTALL spatstat'' runs without complaint.
>
> Where is ``__f95_sign'' coming from?  How do I rearrange things so
> that this symbol *can* be found?  Could someone please gently
> point me in the right direction?  I haven't a clue where to start. :-(
>
> Thanks for any hints.
>
> 				cheers,
>
> 					Rolf Turner
> 					rolf at math.unb.ca
>
> P. S.  Version info:
>
> > version
>         _
> platform sparc-sun-solaris2.9
> arch     sparc
> os       solaris2.9
> system   sparc, solaris2.9
> status
> major    2
> minor    2.0
> year     2005
> month    10
> day      06
> svn rev  35749
> language R
>
> P^2. S.  What's with this ``__f95__happiness'' jazz???
>
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Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
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