On Sun, 29 Jul 2001 vogels@cmu.edu wrote:
Hi, This email reports bugs in acinclude.m4, src/library/tcltk/src/Makefile, and share/perl/Rd2contents.pl. It is based on R-patched.tgz from 07/27/2001 (R 1.3.0) and comes from trying to compile R on AIX 4.3.
Would that be 2001-07-27? Not all of us live in countries that flout ISO standards!
1) acinclude.m4: A string on line 3096 starts with a single quote: ' but
is terminated with a double quote: ". (This leads to the weird error
message that configure can't execute 'shared' on line 4060.)
The fix is simply to use single quotes both times:
allow_undefined_flag='${wl}-berok'
That is a generated file. It coems from m4/libtool.m4.
2) after configure (with CC=gcc but using AIX's linker /usr/bin/ld), the Makefile in src/library/tcltk/src doesn't protect the linker flags -bI with -Xlinker! (-Xlinker is required when using gcc so that the linker flags are passed on to ld correctly. Which I know that you know...) The fix is to add -Xlinker before every -bI. Sorry, haven't looked into patching configure yet... 3) Rd2contents.pl: this perl script fails in the base library! There are too many files in the man directory and perl reports 'glob failed'. When I try 'ls man/*.Rd' bash also reports that the argument list is too long. I
(! That looks like a bash bug. Your bash version is ? sh is supposed ot have no line length limits.)
don't know whether this limitation comes from AIX, bash or perl and why it doesn't happen with, say, Linux.
Do you have a current perl? Globbing was changed in 5.6.0 to be handled in C code, as I recall. It does not happen on Solaris, Linux or Windows, and I suspect a perl upgrade might fix it. Try 5.6.1, if you are not already using it.
The fix is to replace the simple while loop (line 6):
while(<$ARGV[0]/man/*.Rd>){ &do_one; }
with a loop over the contents of the directory using readdir:
if (opendir RD, "$ARGV[0]/man") {
my $f;
while (defined ($f = readdir RD)) {
$_ = "$ARGV[0]/man/$f", &do_one if $f =~ m,.Rd$,;
}
closedir RD;
}
(slower and less portable if it is not needed.) Your perl version is ?
A) tkConfig.sh contains a line like this: TK_XINCLUDES='# no special path needed' This has nothing to do with R proper but this bug which is either in AIX or the local installation of X shows up during the compilation of R. Anyhow, this line is plain stupid since when passed on to the compiler _comments out_ the rest of the line! (Think about: gcc fine_program.c #no special path needed -lX11 -Xm ) The fix is to use "TK_XINCLUDES=''" in tkConfig.sh Again, I know this is not a problem with R but I'm adding it here for people to find if they use the mailing list archive. After these changes R compiles (producing warnings about duplicate symbols...) and installs. 'make check' fails in mva--report to follow. Regards, -tom -- Email: vogels@cmu.edu -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-devel mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-devel-request@stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
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