[R] Building R on Solaris (OpenIndiana) with gcc 4.6.2 for amd64 target - relocation problems solved

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On 06/04/2012 19:38, Michael Figiel wrote:
> Hello,
> the "R Installation and Administration" handbook states in Section C 5.1:
> For ‘amd64’ the builds have failed to complete in several different
> ways, currently with relocation errors for libRblas.so.
>
> To fix it: add '-shared' to the SHLIB_LDFLAGS, SHLIB_CXXLDFLAGS and
> SHLIB_FCLDFLAGS before starting configure.
>
> So the complete set of variables' values sufficient to build for the
> amd64 target (as used on OpenIndiana 151a2 with gcc 4.6.2):
> SHLIB_LDFLAGS=-shared
> SHLIB_CXXFLAGS=-shared
> SHLIB_FCLDFLAGS=-shared
> CFLAGS=-m64
> CXXFLAGS=-m64
> FFLAGS=-m64
> FCFLAGS=-m64
> LDFLAGS=-m64 -L/usr/local/lib/amd64
> CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include
>
> Additionally you'll need the gnu libiconv, which resides probably in
> /usr/gnu, so the CPPFLAGS will need an -I/usr/gnu/include and the
> LDFLAGS needs a -L/usr/gnu/lib/amd64 (on my machines I keep everything
> in /usr/local therefor no reference to /usr/gnu )
>
> If you prefer to use the Solaris linker (/usr/bin/ld) add
> -fno-gnu-linker to the SHLIB_* variables and make sure, your PATH
> doesn't list /usr/gnu/bin before /usr/bin.
>
> I've got only OpenIndiana machines, but it should work on Solaris 10/11,
> too.

Your instructions are for the GNU linker: those in the manual are for 
the Solaris linker, which does not support --shared.

>
> Kind regards
> Michael Figiel
>
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