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R, AIX 64-bit builds - trying to understand root cause for message: "Error: Line starting 'Package: tools ...' is malformed!"

I would be "pleased" if you would try packages - i.e., none of "Toolbox" 
or Perzl rpm's.

The iconv I supply might not be working as is (I will need to install a 
new system to check). However, this is why I have been testing with 
R-3.2.3 - to side-step the system library dependencies.

re: xz - I have "installp" version - and any of my packages should work 
side-by-side with the Toolbox/.rpm files - my PATH prefix is /opt (so, 
/opt/bin and /opt/sbin rather than /usr/bin, /usr/local/bin (etc.).

I am testing on a Power6, usually with 2 to 4G RAM active. When I get 
the compile to finish I will up to 8G to test some data processing that 
fails with the 32-bit limitations.

Another question: are you also getting lots of duplicate symbol 
warnings? Curious me. If you are I would like to send my modifications 
to configure(.ac) for you to test (I put .ac in () because I am actually 
editting configure atm but shall put them into configure.ac when I finish)

FYI: I shall be downloading the "try and buy" xlc and xlfortran - and I 
think you will certainly prefer my packaging then as they work without 
the libgc dependencies that many of the rpm packages need.

And, at your option - we can take this discussion over tools - "out of 
forums". Or at least start a new thread.

re: unsigned short - I have adopted the convention to use the *NN_t 
types after running into a problem with unsigned longlong (from a very 
old program). It goes back many years - and maybe they have finalized 
short to mean 16-bits - but I remember when short was meant to help when 
moving from 16-bit to 32-bit and the "word" size changed - i.e., int 
became 32-bit same as long. nd for a long (no pun intended) long was 
32-bit and long long was 64-bit. Those definitions are extinct.

imho - the standard for wint_t is wrong as well - based on an assumption 
about how "short" is defined. And, I consider it poor practice that 
there are som many cases of type cast switches between ushort and int.

Michael
On 04-Jan-16 01:26, Simon Urbanek wrote:

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Simon Urbanek R, AIX 64-bit builds - trying to understand root cause for message: "Error: Line starting 'Package: tools ...' is malformed!" Jan 1 Simon Urbanek R, AIX 64-bit builds - trying to understand root cause for message: "Error: Line starting 'Package: tools ...' is malformed!" Jan 1 Peter Dalgaard R, AIX 64-bit builds - trying to understand root cause for message: "Error: Line starting 'Package: tools ...' is malformed!" Jan 1 Michael Felt R, AIX 64-bit builds - trying to understand root cause for message: "Error: Line starting 'Package: tools ...' is malformed!" Jan 3 Michael Felt R, AIX 64-bit builds - trying to understand root cause for message: "Error: Line starting 'Package: tools ...' is malformed!" Jan 3 Michael Felt R, AIX 64-bit builds - trying to understand root cause for message: "Error: Line starting 'Package: tools ...' is malformed!" Jan 3 Simon Urbanek R, AIX 64-bit builds - trying to understand root cause for message: "Error: Line starting 'Package: tools ...' is malformed!" Jan 3 Michael Felt R, AIX 64-bit builds - trying to understand root cause for message: "Error: Line starting 'Package: tools ...' is malformed!" Jan 3 Simon Urbanek R, AIX 64-bit builds - trying to understand root cause for message: "Error: Line starting 'Package: tools ...' is malformed!" Jan 4 Michael Felt R, AIX 64-bit builds - trying to understand root cause for message: "Error: Line starting 'Package: tools ...' is malformed!" Jan 4 Michael Felt R, AIX 64-bit builds - trying to understand root cause for message: "Error: Line starting 'Package: tools ...' is malformed!" Jan 4 Michael Felt R, AIX 64-bit builds - trying to understand root cause for message: "Error: Line starting 'Package: tools ...' is malformed!" Jan 4 Michael Felt R, AIX 64-bit builds - trying to understand root cause for message: "Error: Line starting 'Package: tools ...' is malformed!" Jan 5