I'm trying to get R running on OpenBSD/alpha. I've applied some configure patches which I've previously sent to the R-devel list to allow R to compile on an OpenBSD ELF platform (which OpenBSD/alpha is, as the i386 port soon will be).
The patched source compiles without problems, and appears to run and perform properly apart from two (possibly unrelated) problems. 1) On startup there are complaints about mismatched symbol sizes (see below). This error message comes from the OpenBSD ld.so, and doesn't occur on OpenBSD/i386. On further investigation this seems to occur when the modreg and ts packages are loaded together. In both packages, the R_*MethodDef arrays are declared globally rather than "static const". Changing these declarations to static const results in the warning disappearing. I think this is *probably* a correct fix. Am I missing something or am I talking/writing garbage. The patch is straightforward, I can send it to one of you if you wish - then again perhaps it's not the right fix. 2) The second problem is that R core dumps with a SIGFPE on any attempt to access a graphics device. The source was compiled with -mieee and again with -mieee-with-inexact using gcc. I have tried turning off optimisation and turning off the "stack-protector" (which I think is an OpenBSD thing) with no improvement. Unfortunately I am having trouble finding the location of the FPE. This may not be entirely an R problem, but if anyone can shed any light on where to go from here, I would be grateful. See below for some other details. Regards, Peter Rye ===================== Startup errors ===================== shiraz:/var/tmp/R-1.7.1/bin$ ./R R : Copyright 2003, The R Development Core Team Version 1.7.1 (2003-06-16) R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. Type `license()' or `licence()' for distribution details. R is a collaborative project with many contributors. Type `contributors()' for more information. Type `demo()' for some demos, `help()' for on-line help, or `help.start()' for a HTML browser interface to help. Type `q()' to quit R. [Previously saved workspace restored] /var/tmp/R-1.7.1/bin/R.bin: /var/tmp/R-1.7.1/library/ts/libs/ts.so : WARNING: symbol(FortEntries) size mismatch relink your program /var/tmp/R-1.7.1/bin/R.bin: /var/tmp/R-1.7.1/library/ts/libs/ts.so : WARNING: symbol(CallEntries) size mismatch relink your program /var/tmp/R-1.7.1/bin/R.bin: /var/tmp/R-1.7.1/library/ts/libs/ts.so : WARNING: symbol(CEntries) size mismatch relink your program > search() [1] ".GlobalEnv" "package:methods" "package:ctest" "package:mva" [5] "package:modreg" "package:nls" "package:ts" "Autoloads" [9] "package:base" > q() Save workspace image? [y/n/c]: n ======================================================= Minimum packages which trigger the error modreg and ts: ======================================================= shiraz:/var/tmp/R-1.7.1/bin$ R_DEFAULT_PACKAGES="modreg, ts" ./R --silent /var/tmp/R-1.7.1/bin/R.bin: /var/tmp/R-1.7.1/library/modreg/libs/modreg.so : WARNING: symbol(FortEntries) size mismatch relink your program /var/tmp/R-1.7.1/bin/R.bin: /var/tmp/R-1.7.1/library/modreg/libs/modreg.so : WARNING: symbol(CallEntries) size mismatch relink your program /var/tmp/R-1.7.1/bin/R.bin: /var/tmp/R-1.7.1/library/modreg/libs/modreg.so : WARNING: symbol(CEntries) size mismatch relink your program > search() [1] ".GlobalEnv" "package:ts" "package:modreg" "Autoloads" [5] "package:base" > q() Save workspace image? [y/n/c]: n ======================================================= If either modreg or ts are left unloaded - no warning! ======================================================= shiraz:/var/tmp/R-1.7.1/bin$ R_DEFAULT_PACKAGES="modreg, nls, mva, ctest, methods" ./R --silent > search() [1] ".GlobalEnv" "package:methods" "package:ctest" "package:mva" [5] "package:nls" "package:modreg" "Autoloads" "package:base" > q() Save workspace image? [y/n/c]: n ======================================================= SIGFPE on executing graphics routine ======================================================= shiraz:/var/tmp/R-1.7.1$ bin/R R : Copyright 2003, The R Development Core Team Version 1.7.1 (2003-06-16) R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. Type `license()' or `licence()' for distribution details. R is a collaborative project with many contributors. Type `contributors()' for more information. Type `demo()' for some demos, `help()' for on-line help, or `help.start()' for a HTML browser interface to help. Type `q()' to quit R. > postscript() > plot(1:10) Floating point exception (core dumped) > q() Save workspace image? [y/n/c]: n [ An empty Rplots.ps file is created prior to the core dump ] shiraz:/var/tmp/R-1.7.1/bin$ ./R R : Copyright 2003, The R Development Core Team Version 1.7.1 (2003-06-16) R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. Type `license()' or `licence()' for distribution details. R is a collaborative project with many contributors. Type `contributors()' for more information. Type `demo()' for some demos, `help()' for on-line help, or `help.start()' for a HTML browser interface to help. Type `q()' to quit R. [Previously saved workspace restored] > search() [1] ".GlobalEnv" "package:methods" "package:ctest" "package:mva" [5] "package:modreg" "package:nls" "package:ts" "Autoloads" [9] "package:base" > plot(1:10) Floating point exception (core dumped) > q() Save workspace image? [y/n/c]: n [ An empty X11 Graphics window is created prior to the core dump ] shiraz:/var/tmp/R-1.7.1/bin$ gdb GNU gdb 4.16.1 (gdb) set heuristic-fence-post 10 (gdb) file R.bin Reading symbols from R.bin...done. (gdb) core ../R.bin.core <= This is using postscript() Core was generated by `R.bin'. Program terminated with signal 8, Floating point exception. Cannot access memory at address 0x16039252c. (gdb) core R.bin.core <= This is using x11() Core was generated by `R.bin'. Program terminated with signal 8, Floating point exception. Cannot access memory at address 0x16039252c. ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
