What compiler system is this? And what settings were used? We are not seeing such a problem on Solaris 10 (neither Sparc nor x86_64) with the Sun Studio 11 compilers they shipped with (a month or two ago). Note that the error message is not to do with subject line: it is launching R and /export/home/gordonp/Desktop/R-alpha/lib/libRlapack.so that has the problem. I don't think that configure can be expected to know about all possible systems on which R might be built, which is why we allow users to set variables such as FLIBS and MAIN_LD. We do try to document the settings needed for known systems in the R-admin manual, and that includes all the Solaris systems we have encountered or seen reports from.
On Fri, 14 Sep 2007, gordonp at ucalgary.ca wrote:
Full_Name: Paul Gordon Version: 2.6.1 (alpha) OS: Solaris 10 Submission from: (NULL) (136.159.169.6) When compiling R 2.6.1 (alpha 2007-09-13), grDevices.so fails to link properly because of a missing symbol __vlog_.
That is not what the error message reproduced below says, which comes from the runtime loader.
This symbol is defined in libmvec.so, but no -lmvec is add by the configure script. Manually adding -lmvec to the linking command allows grDevices to compile. The error output of the make command (for a 64-bit version of R) is given below: cc -G -m64 -L/lib/64 -L/usr/lib/64 -L/usr/local/lib/64 -L/usr/ucblib/sparcv9 -L/usr/ccs/lib/sparcv9 -L/opt/SUNWspro/prod/lib/sparcv9 -o grDevices.so chull.o devNull.o devPicTeX.o devPS.o devQuartz.o init.o
Warning in solve.default(rgb) : unable to load shared library '/export/home/gordonp/Desktop/R-alpha/modules//lapack.so': ld.so.1: R: fatal: relocation error: file /export/home/gordonp/Desktop/R-alpha/lib/libRlapack.so: symbol __vlog_: referenced symbol not found Error in solve.default(rgb) : lapack routines cannot be loaded Error: unable to load R code in package 'grDevices'
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