Building R 2.1.0 on AIX 5.2.0.0

-----Original Message-----
From: paul.boutros at utoronto.ca [mailto:paul.boutros at utoronto.ca]
Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 11:19 PM
To: R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: Problems Building Ron AIX 5.2.0.0 (Solved)


Happily I got this to work, largely by trial-and-error.  In hopes
that this will
help somebody else, my config.site ended up being:
OBJECT_MODE=64
R_PAPERSIZE=letter
CC=/usr/local/bin/gcc
MAIN_LDFLAGS=-Wl,-brtl
SHLIB_LDFLAGS=-Wl,-G

Which is virtually identical to that recommended in R-admin: one
of my problems
was using "-W1,brtl" rather than "-W1,-brtl".  This was R 2.0.1
on AIX 5.2.0.0 with GCC 3.3.2

The previous messages I'd posted on this issue are included below.

Paul

============================================================
My apologies -- I had believed that by linking the source message I
had made the detailed context available.  I will be more careful in
the future to correctly give full context.

Paul

-----Original Message-----
From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk]
Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2005 5:23 AM
To: paul.boutros at utoronto.ca
Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: Re: [R] Problems Building R on AIX 5.2.0.0 (Update)


Quotes from messages about Solaris 9 are not necessarily applicable to
AIX, and in omitting the context you have misrepresented me.

Please do bear in mind the `moral rights' on quoting given at

http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/help/policy/copyright.htm

(Perhaps such a reference is needed in the posting guide?)


On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 paul.boutros at utoronto.ca wrote:

Hi,

My previous message is appended: I'm still struggling with

building on AIX.  I

updated my config.site to follow the suggestions from R-admin:
MAIN_LDFLAGS=-Wl,brtl
SHLIB_LDFLAGS=-Wl,-G

This led to an error during configure:
checking whether mixed C/Fortran code can be run... configure:

WARNING: cannot

run mixed C/Fortan code
configure: error: Maybe check LDFLAGS for paths to Fortran libraries?

This confused me a bit, because before adding the MAIN_LDFLAGS

and SHLIB_LDFLAGS

to config.site this step of configure did not show an error.

When I googled this

I found a previous message from last year:
http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/help/04/04/1622.html

At the end of this message Professor Ripley says:
"You need wherever libg2c.so is installed in your LD_LIBRARY_PATH."

So... I went looking for this file and could not find it!  In

/usr/local/lib I

have:
$ ls -al libg2c*
-rw-r--r--   1 freeware staff       7751224 Jan 09 2004  libg2c.a
-rwxr-xr-x   1 freeware staff           714 Jan 09 2004  libg2c.la

But no libg2c.so appears to be on my system.  Does this

indicate a bad install

of gcc, or could anybody offer any suggestions on where to go

from here?

Paul

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From: Paul Boutros <Paul.Boutros_at_utoronto.ca>
Date: Thu 24 Feb 2005 - 02:43:52 EST

Hello,

I am trying to build R 2.0.1 on an AIX 5.2.0.0 machine using

gcc 3.3.2:

$ oslevel

5.2.0.0
$ gcc -v

Reading specs from

/usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0/3.3.2/specs

Configured with: ../gcc-3.3.2/configure : (reconfigured)

../gcc-3.3.2/configure

--disable-nls : (reconfigured) ../gcc-3.3.2/configure

--disable-nls Thread

model: aix
gcc version 3.3.2

Configure goes okay, but I get an error that I don't quite know

how to interpret

during make. I've included the summary output from the end of

configure as well

as the error that I get during make below. Any

suggestions/recommendations are

very much appreciate: I'm stuck on ideas for what could be

going wrong.

Paul

$ ./configure --prefix=/db2blaste/R


<snip>

R is now configured for powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0

 Source directory: .
 Installation directory: /db2blast/R

 C compiler:                gcc -mno-fp-in-toc -g -O2
 C++ compiler:              g++  -g -O2
 Fortran compiler:          g77  -g -O2

 Interfaces supported:      X11

 External libraries:
 Additional capabilities: PNG, JPEG
 Options enabled: R profiling

 Recommended packages: yes

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
configure: WARNING: I could not determine a browser
configure: WARNING: I could not determine a PDF viewer


$ make


<snip>

       gcc -Wl,-bM:SRE -Wl,-H512 -Wl,-T512 -Wl,-bnoentry

-Wl,-bexpall -Wl,- bI:

.

./../../etc/R.exp -L/usr/local/lib -o
lapack.so -Wl,-bI:../../../etc/Rlapack.exp
Lapack.lo rgeev.lo

rsyev.lo -L../../../lib -lRlapack -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/

local/lib/gcc-lib/

powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0/3.3.2 -L/usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/powe rpc-
ibm-aix5.2.0.0/3.3.2/../../.. -lfrtbegin -lg2c -lm -lgcc_s

/usr/local/lib/gcclib

/powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0/3.3.2/libgcc.a -lg -ldl -ltermcap -lm

-lc ld: 0706-006

Cannot find or open library file: -l Rlapack

       ld:open(): A file or directory in the path name does not exist.
collect2: ld returned 255 exit status
make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 1.

Stop.
make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 2.

Stop.
make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 1.

Stop.
make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 1.

Stop.
make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 1.

Stop.