Building under IRIX 6.5 (report)

I had (and still have) to deal with SGIs and came across the similar
error message. I remember going through by setting MAKE=gmake in the
config.site file and by replacing the 'make ; make test; make install' on
the command line by 'gmake; gmake test; gmake install'
(rem: If I remember well, on a SGI the test bit do not go too good... this
is (was ?) a reported bug).

On Sat, 8 Dec 2001, Manfred W. Baumstark wrote:

On my IRIX system (SGI compilers, gcc not installed) ./configure runs fine,
but there is a problem with make (output below) that can be solved by
changing one line in src/modules/lapack/Makefile. If this line is changed,
make runs without problems. 'make check' still has a problem
(sh[14]: /usr/sbin/perl: arg list too long), but I assume this is
"cosmetic".

Manfred

----------- The patch:
msm4:/usr/local/src/R-1.3.1/src/modules/lapack% diff -u Makefile.o Makefile
--- Makefile.o  Sat Dec  8 19:23:32 2001
+++ Makefile    Sat Dec  8 19:27:26 2001
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 SOURCES_BLAS = blas2.f  cmplxblas.f

 DEPENDS = $(SOURCES_C:.c=.d)
-OBJECTS = $(SOURCES_C:.c=.lo) $(SOURCES_F:.f=.lo) \
+OBJECTS = $(SOURCES_C:.c=.lo) $(SOURCES_F:.f=.lo)
   # $(SOURCES_BLAS:.f=.lo)
 HEADERS = Lapack.h

Well, that Makefile is not part of the sources!  Makefile.in in the
near-release 1.4.0 ha

OBJECTS = $(SOURCES_C:.c=.lo) $(SOURCES_F:.f=.lo) \
@USE_EXTERNAL_BLAS_FALSE@ $(SOURCES_BLAS:.f=.lo)

and on my system Makefile has

OBJECTS = $(SOURCES_C:.c=.lo) $(SOURCES_F:.f=.lo) \
# $(SOURCES_BLAS:.f=.lo)

as does 1.3.1.  What make is this?  As R-admin.texi says


To compile @R{}, you will most likely find it easiest to use GNU
@command{make}.  On Solaris 2.6/7/8 in particular, you need a version of
GNU @command{make} different from 3.77; 3.79 works fine, as does the Sun
@command{make}.

I suspect your make is broken.

------------ make stops with the following error:
"cmplx.f", line 19283: warning(2290): actual argument is incompatible with
          dummy argument
              CALL ZLARFB( SIDE, TRANS, 'Forward', 'Columnwise', MI, NI,
              CALL ZLARFB( SIDE, TRANS, 'Forward', 'Columnwise', MI, NI,

That's standard LAPACK 3 code, so the bug report needs to go to LAPACK.
I think your compiler is incorrect, but 'F', 'C' might work.

BDR