>>>>> Brian D Ripley writes: > As far as I know R 2.0.1 was built on AIX. A quick diff > gannet% diff ~/R/R-2.0.1/src/modules/X11/Makefile > ~/R/R-2.1.0/src/modules/X11/Makefile > 54c54 > < $(SHLIB_LINK) -o $@ $(R_X11_la_LDFLAGS) $(R_X11_la_OBJECTS) > $(R_X11_la_LIBADD) $(LIBS) > --- >> $(SHLIB_LINK) -o $@ $(R_X11_la_LDFLAGS) $(R_X11_la_OBJECTS) > $(R_X11_la_LIBADD) > 128c128,129 > < ../../../src/include/Rmodules/RX11.h > --- >> ../../../src/include/Rmodules/RX11.h \ >> ../../../src/include/Rconnections.h
> suggests that AIX (alone) required $(LIBS) there. As it is harmful on > some other platforms (the intention is to pick up entry points in > R.bin/libR rather than duplicate copies of static libraries) I suspect we > need an AIX-specific workaround (in particular the libintl library is not > going to be in LIBS). > This probably applies to other modules and even shared objects in > packages. Yes. It would still be good if someone on AIX could provide us with the output of BUILDDIR/libtool --config. -k > Is there anyone with an AIX machine who is able to work through this > and provide appropriate diffs? > On Thu, 12 May 2005, Bill Northcott wrote: >> On 11/05/2005, at 11:26 PM, Kurt Hornik wrote: >> >> There seem to be problems in the autoconf stuff. cos and sin are >> >> being located in libm but the link line you show has no '-lm' which >> >> accounts for 6 of the 7 missing symbols. Also gettext seems to have >> >> been located by the configure script, but there is no option on the >> >> link line to include it in the link. Also search configure.in for >> >> strings like powerpc-ibm-aix to see what stuff is being done >> >> specifically for AIX. It may be out of date in relation to your >> >> system. >> >> >> > >> > >> >> If it was my problem, I would have look at those bits of the >> >> configure >> >> script and the sections of configure.in that generated them. Then I >> >> would compare the AC_SUBST variables with the makefile.in that >> >> generated the link. It seems there is some non- communication there. >> >> > Yes most of the undefined symbols seem to come from libm. But they >> > would also be in libm on all other platforms which have such, and >> > we do >> > not include it there. On Linux I get >> > >> > gcc-3.4 -shared -L/usr/local/lib -o R_X11.so dataentry.lo >> > devX11.lo rotated.lo rbitmap.lo -lSM -lICE -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lX11 >> > -ljpeg -lpng -lz -L../../../lib -lR >> >> What happens on Linux is just not really relevant to what happens on >> AIX, although it might explain why the errors have not been picked >> up. A number of platforms do not have a separate libm. Instead they >> have a symlink to some general C library. So typically libm is >> linked by default on these platforms. It looks as if that is not the >> case on AIX, and that a specific -lm flag is needed. >> > >> > and this works. As Brian already wrote, we are building a *module* >> > here, so I assume that we are not getting the flags for building >> > modules >> > right. Assuming that libtool can, it might be helpful to look at the >> > output of BUILDDIR/libtool --config. >> > >> The error messages are about missing symbols. >> >> Bill >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel >> > -- > Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ > University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) > 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) > Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel