Help: Error when installing R 2.8.1 in IBM AIX system from source code

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Help with outdated versions of R, and particularly with nonstandard patch files, are not really on topic here. Posting in HTML format is not advised (see posting guide) since it actually makes it harder to read R code, so text coloring doesn't come through.

It appears to me that your patch failed to make necessary changes to the R source code to be compatible your operating system in step 3. It is possible that you were using an incompatible version of the patch program. You may need to obtain the version of GNU compilers and other toolchain components that were used in developing that particular version of R. You probably need help from a programmer who is familiar with AIX and Unix development to help you interpret the compiler errors and warnings.

With appropriate local technical support for composing questions, you may be able to get more focused answers on the R-devel mailing list rather than here. However, the issue of asking questions about an old version of the R source code may still prove unpopular, so it may be better to study the intent of your existing patch files and try to adapt them to a v3.0.x version before asking for help there.
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Hi R-Help,

When we tried to install R 2.8.1 in our AIX system, we faced some
error,
please help.

OS level: AIX 7.1 64 bit
R 2.8.1

We had a guide about How to install R 2.8.1 in AIX from R source code.
Here
is what I did:

1.??Download the R source file, for example R-2.8.1.tar.gz , from
http://www.r-project.org/ (or
ftp://ftp.stat.math.ethz.ch/Software/CRAN/src/base/R-2/) and save it to
the
temporary directory.

2. cd /spss/src
tar xzf R-2.8.1.tar.gz
cd R-2.8.1

3.??Download and install the patch from
http://prs.ism.ac.jp/~nakama/AIX/AIX_R-2.8.1_fix.patch.

mv??AIX_R-2.8.1_fix.patch??/spss/src/R-2.8.1
chown -R root:system??/spss/src/R-2.8.1
chmod -R 775??/spss/src/R-2.8.1

zspssdb2was5:/spss/src/R-2.8.1# patch -p1 < AIX_R-2.8.1_fix.patch
Hmm... ??Looks like a unified context diff to me...
The text leading up to this was:
--------------------------
|diff -ruN R-2.8.1.orig/Makeconf.in R-2.8.1/Makeconf.in
|--- R-2.8.1.orig/Makeconf.in ?? 2008-10-17 11:05:02.000000000 +0900
|+++ R-2.8.1/Makeconf.in ?? ?? ?? ??2009-02-19 17:48:17.000000000 +0900
--------------------------
Patching file Makeconf.in using Plan A...
Malformed patch at line 5: ??MAIN_CFLAGS = @MAIN_CFLAGS@

4. Set parameters

export ICONVINC=-I/opt/freeware/include
export PNGINC=-I/opt/freeware/include
export JPEGINC=-I/opt/freeware/include
export ZLIBINC=-I/opt/freeware/include
export ICONVLIB=-L/opt/freeware/lib
export PNGLIB=-L/opt/freeware/lib
export JPEGLIB=-L/opt/freeware/lib
export ZLIBLIB=-L/opt/freeware/lib

export CC="xlc_r -q64"
export CXX="xlC_r -q64"
export CXXFLAGS="-O -qstrict"
export CFLAGS="-O -qstrict"
export F77="xlf_r -q64"
export AR="ar -X64"
export CPPFLAGS="$ICONVINC $PNGINC $JPEGINC $ZLIBINC
-I/usr/lpp/X11/include/X11"
export LDFLAGS="$ICONVLIB $PNGLIB $JPEGLIB $ZLIBLIB -L/usr/lib
-L/usr/X11R6/lib"
export OBJECT_MODE="64"

5. ./configure --prefix=/opt/R-2.8.1??--enable-R-shlib
--enable-BLAS-shlib
--with-x --with-readline=no

R is now configured for rs6000-ibm-aix

?? Source directory: ?? ?? ?? ?? ??.
?? Installation directory: ?? ??/opt/R-2.8.1

?? C compiler: ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ??xlc_r -q64 ??-O -qstrict
?? Fortran 77 compiler: ?? ?? ?? xlf_r -q64 ??-g

?? C++ compiler: ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ??xlC_r -q64 ??-O -qstrict
?? Fortran 90/95 compiler: ?? ??gfortran
?? Obj-C compiler:

?? Interfaces supported: ?? ?? ??X11, tcltk
?? External libraries:
?? Additional capabilities: ?? TIFF, iconv, MBCS, NLS
?? Options enabled: ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? shared R library, shared BLAS, R
profiling,
Java

?? 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

Issue1: during "configure" step, I faced below error in red, and I take
below action in blue:
./configure[20510]: "${}": bad substitution
at line 20510 of ./configure file, add below line:
shlibpath_var=LD_LIBRARY_PATH

6. make

Issue: during "make" step, I faced the below error in red, I don't know
how
to fix it.
../../../bin/R[206]: "${}": bad substitution
make: The error code from the last command is 1.

Stop.

Thanks and Best Regards.

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Hi Jeff,

Thanks for your quick response. Let me describe more about my situation.

1. Patch file - Yes, I found patch didn't change any file, so I manually
changed 4 files(R-2.8.1/configure, R-2.8.1/configure.ac,
R-2.8.1/Makeconf.in, R-2.8.1/src/main/Makefile.in) by reading the patch
file.

2. why I use old version R 2.8.1 - We want to use SPSS Statistics to call R
in our server and have to install "Statistics essentials for R" after R is
installed successfully. In Statistics 20 document, it only supports R 2.8.1
and provide that install guidance.
In that case, you should be contacting SPSS tech support for help.

Duncan Murdoch
3. I don't know how to disable HTML format in my mail client. Sorry for
that. I rewrite colorful part again here as 3.1 and 3.2 :

3.1 Issue1: during "configure" step, I faced this error:"./configure
[20510]: "${}": bad substitution".
And I took action to solve it, the action is :add
"shlibpath_var=LD_LIBRARY_PATH" before line 20510 of configure file.

3.2 Issue2: during "make" step, I faced the below error but I don't know
how to fix it:

../../../bin/R[206]: "${}": bad substitution
make: The error code from the last command is 1.

Stop.

4. Since you said it's not a standard patch, do you have a standard patch
for R 2.8.1 installation in AIX 7.1 64bit system?

Best regards,

Dexin Luan (??????)

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