[R-SIG-Mac] Compiling 2.5.1 on OSX Panther (James Kyle)

[Simon Urbanek]

On Nov 5, 2007, at 3:12 AM, Jari Oksanen wrote:

> James Kyle krunk7 at gmail.com  Mon Aug 13 22:11:28 CEST 2007 wrote:
>> Thank you for the input, I'm a bit new to this level of compiling,
>> but here's my best efforts.
>>
>>
>>> Unfortunately I'm currently traveling without access to any Panther
>>> box, so I can help you only theoretically. The problem is that  
>>> you're
>>> using static g2c and thus linking it more than once (libR and
>>> libRlapack) won't work. There are several work arounds:
>>> 1) use dynamic g2c (if available)
>>>
>> I read the gcc documentation and the only package not compiled as a
>> shared lib by default is libobjc. So I first compiled gcc-3.3.6
>> (without the --enable-shared=libobjc), installed it in /usr/local/
>> gcc36, and then ln -sf /usr/local/gcc36/bin/gcc ~/bin/gcc and ln - 
>> sf /
>> usr/local/gcc36/bin/g77 ~/bin/g77.
>> Compiling R against this build produced:
>>
>> $ ./configure --with-blas='-framework vecLib' --enable-BLAS-shlib &&
>> make all
>> g77  -fPIC -fno-common  -g -O2 -c blas.f -o blas.o
>> g77  -fPIC -fno-common  -g -O2 -c cmplxblas.f -o cmplxblas.ogcc -
>> std=gnu99 -dynamiclib -L/sw/lib -L/usr/local/lib -o libRblas.dylib
>> blas.o -install_name libRblas.dylib -headerpad_max_install_names  -
>> lg2c  cmplxblas.o
>> ld: for architecture ppc
>> ld: Undefined symbols:
>> _xerbla_
>> _z_abs
>> /usr/bin/libtool: internal link edit command failed
>> make[4]: *** [libRblas.dylib] Error 1
>>
>
> I tried to build R-2.6.0 for MacOS 10.3.9 on the weekend, but failed
> miserably. It seems that the location of the failure is exactly the  
> same
> as in this thread that I found in the August archive of R-SIG-Mac. I
> didn't find any continuation to this. Does this mean that the issue is
> unresolved? I get a bit different messages depending on config  
> switches
> and when configuring and building in Terminal.app or in Xterm. The  
> place
> is the same: lapack.
>

Unfortunately I have no Panther box anymore (therefore there are not  
CRAN builds and I can't test it), but here are some pointers:

1) disable fink - it's known to cause many, many problems. At least  
for the config/compilation rename /sw to something else
2) when using --with-blas, you must use --with-lapack, otherwise it  
won't work. Either use vecLib for both or not at all.
3) --enable-BLAS-shlib is not intended to work on Panther, as 10.3  
doesn't support dynamic lookup

Please let me know how it goes.

Cheers,
Simon


> A bit more information: I tried building first in another MacOS 10.3.9
> box and there it worked smoothly (up to make, I didn't try make  
> install,
> since it's not my box). However, in my own iBook the failure is the  
> same
> as reported here. In retrospect, the most notably difference between
> these two boxes may be that in my iBook I tried to keep up with R
> versions and installed unofficial binary builds for 10.3.9 from
> http://r.research.att.com/ as long as they were made available (up to
> 2.3.0), but the official CRAN release was the latest installed in that
> another box. This may mean that some of the tools were changed under
> way, but I don't know yet how.
>
> cheers, jari oksanen
> -- 
> Jari Oksanen <jari.oksanen at oulu.fi>
>
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