Message-ID: <44158D83.10607@lindaspaces.com>
Date: 2006-03-13T15:19:31Z
From: Jennifer Lai
Subject: problem building R-patched on x86-64 with PGI 6.1
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0603110749470.6922@gannet.stats.ox.ac.uk>
Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
>
>> As those of you who saw my post on R-help know, I've been trying to
>> build
>> R-patched on a dual Opteron box running Scyld Beowulf, using the PGI 6.1
>> compilers. The build went fine, but I couldn't get it to pass make
>> check-all. Jennifer Lai, who reported success with PGI 6.0 previously,
>> seems to have the same problem with 6.1. Here are the particulars:
>>
>> Since R requires IEEE754 conformance, the flag to use for PGI is -Kieee.
>> (BTW, configure still insist on sticking in -mieee-fp, which generates a
>> warning.) With that flag, the build runs into trouble with the first
>> example in ?optim. Running it by hand gives me:
>
>
> Well, configure insists on doing so because we were told it was correct.
> (Will change.) Is -Kieee always correct for PG?
> Looking at
>
> http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_type/DownloadableAssets/dwamd_PGI_nov603.pdf
>
>
> suggests you might want to try -pc64 -Kieee.
>
Thanks, Prof. Ripley! The optim example pass the sanity check with -pc64
-Kieee flag.
"make check" now fails at reg-tests-1.R
Regards,
Jennifer