64-bit R build with Studio 12 on Sparc v9
On Dec 20, 2007, at 6:45 PM, Louisell, Paul wrote:
I'm working on a server with a sparcv9 chip using SunOS 5.9 Generic May 2002. The compilers are the Sun Studio 12 compilers. I'm trying to build a 64-bit version of R-2.6.1, and while the configure script runs, the make does not.
Paul, I don't know if that helps, but incidentally I have compiled R successfully with spro12 for a v9 machine just yesterday and all you need is in the R-admin manual. For completeness these were the (main) flags: 'CXX=CC -m64' 'LDFLAGS=-L/opt/SUNWspro/lib/v9' 'CC=cc -xc99 -m64' 'CFLAGS=-O -xlibmieee -xarch=sparcvis' 'F77=f95 -m64' 'FFLAGS=-O4 -xarch=sparcvis' 'CXXFLAGS=-O -m64 -xarch=sparcvis' 'FC=f95 -m64' 'FCFLAGS=-O4 -xarch=sparcvis -libmil' 'SHLIB_CXXLDFLAGS=-G -lCstd' 'SHLIB_LDFLAGS=-shared' 'CPICFLAGS=-Kpic' 'FPICFLAGS=-KPIC' 'CXXPICFLAGS=-Kpic' 'FCPICFLAGS=- KPIC' Cheers, Simon PS: My tests so far show that R compiled with gcc 4.2.2 is faster than R compiled with the Sun's compilers, so I ended up using gcc instead as it's less painful and faster.
Here are the options I set in config.site:
________________________________________________________________________ _ R_PAPERSIZE=letter CC="cc -m64" CFLAGS="-xO5 -xlibmil -xmemalign=8s" F77="f95 -m64" FFLAGS="-xO5 -xlibmil -xmemalign=8s" LDFLAGS="-L/opt/SUNWspro/lib/v9 -L/usr/local/lib" CXX="CC -m64" CXXFLAGS="-xO5 -xlibmil -xmemalign=8s" FC="f95 -m64" FCFLAGS="-xO5 -xlibmil -xmemalign=8s" ________________________________________________________________________ __ Here's the command invoking configure: ________________________________________________________________________ __ ./configure --with-blas --with-lapack --enable-BLAS-shlib ________________________________________________________________________ __ And here are the last several lines of the screen output from running the configure script: ________________________________________________________________________ __ R is now configured for sparc-sun-solaris2.9 Source directory: . Installation directory: /usr/local C compiler: cc -m64 -xO5 -xlibmil -xmemalign=8s Fortran 77 compiler: f95 -m64 -xO5 -xlibmil -xmemalign=8s C++ compiler: CC -m64 -xO5 -xlibmil -xmemalign=8s Fortran 90/95 compiler: f95 -m64 -xO5 -xlibmil -xmemalign=8s Obj-C compiler: cc Interfaces supported: X11 External libraries: readline, BLAS(SunPerf) Additional capabilities: iconv, MBCS, NLS Options enabled: shared BLAS, R profiling, Java Recommended packages: yes configure: WARNING: you cannot build the object documentation system configure: WARNING: you cannot build DVI versions of the R manuals configure: WARNING: you cannot build info or HTML versions of the R manuals configure: WARNING: you cannot build PDF versions of the R manuals ________________________________________________________________________ ____ I'm not concerned about not being able to build the manuals. Here are the last several lines of the screen output from running make: ________________________________________________________________________ ____ making pcre_chartables.d from pcre_chartables.c "./pcre_internal.h", line 168: Illegal number 4294967295U *** Error code 2 make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `pcre_chartables.d' Current working directory /export/home/ploua/R_HOME/R-2.6.1/src/extra/pcre *** Error code 1 make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `R' Current working directory /export/home/ploua/R_HOME/R-2.6.1/src/extra/pcre *** Error code 1 make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `R' Current working directory /export/home/ploua/R_HOME/R-2.6.1/src/extra *** Error code 1 make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `R' Current working directory /export/home/ploua/R_HOME/R-2.6.1/src *** Error code 1 make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `R' ________________________________________________________________________ ____ It seems that the C compiler is having a hard time reading standard C constants. Some further (hopefully relevant) background: Here is an excerpt from the Studio 12 C User's Guide: ________________________________________________________________________ ____ If you do not specify -xc99, the compiler defaults to - xc99=all,no_lib. If you specify -xc99 without any values, the option is set to-xc99=all. Note - Though the compiler support-level defaults to the language features of the C99 standard, the standard headers provided by the Solaris 8 and Solaris 9 operating systems in /usr/include do not conform with the 1999 ISO/IEC C standard. If you encounter error messages, try specifying -xc99=none to obtain the 1990 ISO/IEC C standard behavior for these headers. The 1999 C standard library semantics of routines that appeared in both the 1990 and 1999 C standard are not available and therefore cannot be enabled on Solaris 8 and Solaris 9 software. The compiler issues an error message when you specify -xc99=lib directly or indirectly on Solaris 8 or Solaris 9 software. ________________________________________________________________________ ____ I've tried adding the option '-xc99=none' to the C flags shown from config.site above, but I get the same error on running make. When I specify only '-xc99', I get an error telling me the library is unavailable on Solaris 9--the User's Guide is telling the truth above. I've also tried modifying 'pcre_internal.h' by commenting out the lines where it's trying to determine the type for 32-bit unsigned integers and instead hard-coding things with typedef unsigned int pcre_uint32; When I do this, I get the same error but originating in a different file. I'm not a C programmer so I can't be certain what I've attempted is reasonable (although I have received some guidance from people who are C programmers). Is my only option to go through and find all instances of '4294967295' in source files and hard-code things as I did above for 'pcre_internal.h'? In the R Installation and Admin manual on page 42, it says, "However, our tests were none too successful: Sparc 64-bit builds crashed." Here they were referring to Solaris 10. I noticed that Brian Ripley produced a successful build using Studio 12, but on x86_64 Linux. The references to Solaris 9 used the Sun Forte 7 compilers. My ultimate question: Does anyone know how to successfully build a 64-bit target for R-2.6.1 using Studio 12 on a system with my architecture? If not using Studio 12, how about Studio 11? Thanks in advance for any help, Paul Louisell 650-833-6254 ploua at allstate.com Associate Predictive Modeler (Statistician) Modeling & Data Analytics ARPC ______________________________________________ R-devel at r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel