I have been able to compile R on OpenBSD 3.[23] for the i386 platform
(still a.out at the moment).
[...]
months. The OpenBSD-current for i386 will also be ELF. On the ELF platforms,
the build dies with the following error:
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
*** Error code 1
I don't know much about OpenBSD, but I experienced the same error on Darwin a while ago. It indicated different naming conventions in shlib export tables - missing underscore or one too many (in our Darwin case no leading underscore should be used although it was prepended by default). Basically it means that the necessary function which is to be provided in the shared library cannot be found (and the package 'methods' is the first to attempt to load an external shlib in R). You may want to check how your platform uses dlsym and also check the linker flags for module libraries. This is just a hint, I have no OpenBSD box here to test it.
Cheers, Simon
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