[R] Error compiling R 2.10.1 on AIX

[Mike Waldron]

I'm trying to compile R 2.10.1 on AIX 5.3, and am getting the following
error:

Error in read.dcf(file = descfile) : 
  Line starting 'Package: tools ...' is malformed!
Calls: makeLazyLoading ... code2LazyLoadDB -> loadNamespace ->
parseNamespaceFile -> read.dcf
Execution halted
make[3]: *** [all] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory
`/afs/.isis.unc.edu/pkg/r-2.10.1/.build/rs_aix53/R-patched/src/library/tools
'

My environment and configure settings are as follows:
   export PATH=/usr/local/bin:/opt/freeware/bin:$PATH
   export OBJECT_MODE=64
   export LIBICONV=/opt/freeware
   export CC="xlc_r -q64"
   export CFLAGS="-O -qstrict"
   export CXX="xlC_r -q64"
   export CXXFLAGS="-O -qstrict"
   export AR="ar -X64"
   export F77="xlf_r -q64"
   export CPPFLAGS="-I/afs/isis/pkg/libpng/include -I/usr/local/include
-I$LIBICONV/include -I/usr/lpp/X11/include/X11"
   export LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/lib -L$LIBICONV/lib -L/usr/lib
-L/usr/X11R6/lib"
   export CAIRO_CFLAGS="-I/opt/freeware/include/cairo
-I/opt/freeware/include/freetype2"
   export CAIRO_LIBS="-L/opt/freeware/lib -lcairo"
   export JAVA_HOME=/usr/java14_64
   export JAVA_CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/java14_64/include"
   export LDR_CNTRL=USERREGS

./configure --prefix=/afs/.isis/pkg/r-2.10.1 --with-tcltk=/usr/local/lib
--with-tcl-config=/usr/local/lib/tclConfig.sh
--with-tk-config=/usr/local/lib/tkConfig.sh

Mike Waldron