[R] Compiling R on aix getting error

Tue Feb 28 23:59:27 CET 2006

Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

> On Tue, 28 Feb 2006, Tiong Lim wrote:
>
>> I am trying to compile R 2.2.1 on aix 5.3 with xlc/xlC 7.0 , but i am
>> getting the error below. I did a search on the archive and someone had a
>> similar error as me but I can't seem to find a fix for the error below.
>
>
> Are you referrring to
>
> http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp02a/archive/66941.html
>
> ?  Unfortunately I never received a reply to those questions.
>
> This appeared to be something new in AIX 5.3's headers, most likely 
> that they have apparently started defining SOCKLEN_T.  For the R-devel 
> version on R we changed to R_SOCKLEN_T.
>
> So please try the R-devel version of R, or change all occurrences of
> SOCKLEN_T to R_SOCKLEN_T.
>
> Googling showed that several other projects had been affected by this. 
> E.g.  http://www.zsh.org/mla/workers/2004/msg01205.html
> And socklen_t on AIX has been an age-old problem.
>
> ...
>
>>        xlc  -I../../src/extra/zlib -I../../src/extra/bzip2
>> -I../../src/extra/pcre   -I. -I../../src/include -I../../src/include
>> -DHAVE_CONFIG_H   -O -qstrict  -c platform.c -o platform.o
>> "/usr/include/netinet/in.h", line 793.1: 1506-166 (S) Definition of
>> function socklen_t requires parentheses.
>> "/usr/include/netinet/in.h", line 793.17: 1506-276 (S) Syntax error:
>> possible missing '{'?
>> "/usr/include/sys/socket.h", line 374.9: 1506-046 (S) Syntax error.
>> "/usr/include/sys/socket.h", line 378.9: 1506-046 (S) Syntax error.
>> "/usr/include/sys/socket.h", line 404.9: 1506-046 (S) Syntax error.
>> "/usr/include/sys/socket.h", line 475.52: 1506-046 (S) Syntax error.
>> "/usr/include/sys/socket.h", line 476.57: 1506-046 (S) Syntax error.
>> "/usr/include/sys/socket.h", line 477.57: 1506-046 (S) Syntax error.
>> "/usr/include/sys/socket.h", line 478.87: 1506-046 (S) Syntax error.
>> "/usr/include/sys/socket.h", line 484.44: 1506-275 (S) Unexpected text
>> socklen_t encountered.
>> "/usr/include/sys/socket.h", line 485.47: 1506-275 (S) Unexpected text
>> socklen_t encountered.
>> "/usr/include/sys/socket.h", line 486.55: 1506-046 (S) Syntax error.
>> "/usr/include/sys/socket.h", line 490.73: 1506-275 (S) Unexpected text
>> socklen_t encountered.
>> "/usr/include/sys/socket.h", line 491.49: 1506-275 (S) Unexpected text
>> socklen_t encountered.
>> "platform.c", line 1386.13: 1506-285 (S) The indirection operator cannot
>> be applied to a pointer to an incomplete struct or union.
>> "platform.c", line 1388.34: 1506-285 (S) The indirection operator cannot
>> be applied to a pointer to an incomplete struct or union.
>> make: The error code from the last command is 1.
>>
>
Thanks Brian for the explanation . Compiling the development version get 
me pass the SOCKET error . But now i get Undefined symbols errors .
Googling I find reference 
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2004-March/046128.html which also 
report similar error but  no answer .

Tiong

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        xlc -q64  -Wl,-bM:SRE -Wl,-H512 -Wl,-T512 -Wl,-bnoentry 
-Wl,-bexpall -Wl,-bI:../../../etc/R.exp -L/usr/local/lib -o R_X11.so 
dataentry.o devX11.o rotated.o rbitmap.o -lSM -lICE -lX11 -lXt  -ljpeg 
-lpng -lz
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .Rf_error
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .Rf_warning
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .Rf_lengthgets
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .R_Reprotect
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .Rf_mkChar
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .SET_STRING_ELT
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .Rf_isNull
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .SET_VECTOR_ELT
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .Rf_isVector
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .Rf_allocVector
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: R_NaString
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: R_NilValue
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .Rf_PrintDefaults
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .Rf_EncodeElement
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .Rf_length
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .Rf_coerceVector
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .Rf_install
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: R_GlobalEnv
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .Rf_GetOption
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .Rf_asInteger
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: R_NaInt
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .log10
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .floor
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .R_strtod
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .Rf_isBlankString
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: R_NaReal
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .UNIMPLEMENTED
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .Rf_duplicate
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .R_ProtectWithIndex
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: R_NamesSymbol
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .Rf_getAttrib
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .Rf_errorcall
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .Rf_protect
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .Rf_str2type
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: R_BaseEnv
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .Rf_begincontext
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .Rf_endcontext
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .Rf_setAttrib
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .Rf_unprotect
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .libintl_gettext
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .R_setX11Routines
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .Rf_checkArity
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .vmaxget
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .Rf_asReal
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .Rf_isValidString
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .Rf_warningcall
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .Rf_isString
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .Rf_isInteger
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .Rf_isLogical
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .Rf_isReal
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .Rf_RGBpar
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .vmaxset
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .R_CheckDeviceAvailable
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: R_interrupts_suspended
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .Rf_mkString
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .Rf_gsetVar
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .GEcreateDevDesc
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .Rf_addDevice
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .GEinitDisplayList
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: R_interrupts_pending
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .Rf_onintr
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .R_alloc
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .Rf_findVar
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .Rf_elt
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .Rf_GetDevice
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .Rf_ScalarString
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .R_FindNamespace
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .Rf_eval
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: R_InputHandlers
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .getInputHandler
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .removeInputHandler
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .Rf_devNumber
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .Rf_KillDevice
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .GEplayDisplayList
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .pow
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .R_ShowMessage
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: mbcslocale
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .sin
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .cos
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .tan
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .R_ExpandFileName
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .R_fopen
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .Rf_asLogical
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .addInputHandler
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .Rprintf
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .R_IsNA
ld: 0711-345 Use the -bloadmap or -bnoquiet option to obtain more 
information.
make: The error code from the last command is 8.

Stop.
make: The error code from the last command is 2.

Stop.
make: The error code from the last command is 1.

Stop.