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Building R on Mac OS X-"dumping methods" problem

3 messages · Tom Kennedy, Peter Dalgaard, Jan de Leeuw

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Tom Kennedy
# 
I have also had the same problem in trying to get R to build on MacOS X.

dumping R code in package 'methods'
Error in .Call("R_initialize_methods_metadata", table, PACKAGE = 
"methods") :
         .Call function name not in load table
Execution halted


OS	10.2.1
gcc	3.1 --supplied by apple
g77	GNU Fortran (GCC 3.1 20020420 (prerelease))
./configure --with-aqua --without-x --enable-R-shlib CPPFLAGS=''

which gives

R is now configured for powerpc-apple-darwin6.1

   Source directory:          .
   Installation directory:    /usr/local

   C compiler:                gcc  -g -O2
   C++ compiler:              g++  -g -O2
   Fortran compiler:          g77  -g -O2

   X11 support:               no
   Gnome support:             no
   Tcl/Tk support:            no
   Readline support:          no

   R profiling support:       yes
   R as a shared library:     yes

   Recommended packages:      no


I have used a number of differing configurations all without success.

./configure
./configure --with-x
./configure --with-aqua --without-x

I used have darwinports instead of fink to get dlcompat.
I don't think darwinports current has a g77 for instllation. I got mine 
from http://gravity.psu.edu/~khanna/g77v3-bin.tar.gz .
I build without atlas or tcltk.
Why do you need to get a curses lib and bzip2, there are already 
versions installed in 10.2?

The cvs version of fink for 10.2 always kernel panics my machine during 
the apt compile, so I have not been able to use fink.

I had the same error on a solaris box (2.6) which resolved when gcc was 
upgraded to 3.3.

-Tom






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Peter Dalgaard
# 
Tom Kennedy <tom.kennedy at bigpond.com> writes:
Hmm. Now I don't know OSX, but this points quite squarely at a dynamic
library loading failure. Does this affect other .Call() instances? Is
it possible that you're picking up another version of methods.so (or
whatever the extension is)? 

Are there "ldd" and "nm" command in MOSX? If so, what do they tell you
about the dyn.lib.? Is there an R_initialize_methods_metadata in it?
Jan de Leeuw
# 
It's something local. One thing that comes to mind is: did he unpack
the R-1.6.0 archive with Stuffit Expander ? Older versions truncate long
filenames. Always use tar or pax.

nm methods.so | grep R_initialize

should tell Tom if the symbol is there
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