#9040: fatal relocation error installing R on OpenSolaris
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Reporter: drkirkby | Owner: drkirkby
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: major | Milestone: sage-4.5.2
Component: solaris | Keywords:
Author: | Upstream: None of the above - read trac for
reasoning.
Reviewer: | Merged:
Work_issues: |
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Comment(by drkirkby):
Replying to [comment:4 jhpalmieri]:
> This also seems like an issue on Solaris on x64 (not just !OpenSolaris).
At least, I can't build R on fulvia, and I get a similar error message.
You do not surprise me there. Page 49 of the
[http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-admin.pdf R Installation and
Administration Guide] says in the section on Solaris:
''Tests with gcc4 on x86 and amd64 have been less successful: x86 builds
have failed on tests using complex arithmetic, whereas on amd64 the builds
have failed to complete in several different ways, most recently with
relocation errors for libRblas.so'' I'm not sure if R is built with the
-fPIC option, but if not, that is likely to be the cause of relocation
errors. I finally convinced the Pari developers that one should use -fPIC
on shared libraries.
Since R runs as a stand-alone program, building with the recommended Sun
compilers should not cause any linking problems.
It means one needs to have two sets of compilers installed, which is a bit
annoying, but there may be no way around it. I guess if we had a patch
that worked with gcc, we could submit that to the R developers. I thought
I'd worry about the R issue when the rest of Sage was building on this
hardware, since R is not a critical component to getting something
working.
An older version of the Sun compilers is installed on 't2' in the
directory {{{/opt/SUNWspro}}}. The C compiler is
{{{/opt/SUNWspro/bin/cc}}} and the C++ compiler is
{{{/opt/SUNWspro/bin/CC}}}. That might be sufficient. It is not the latest
!SunStudio, but I doubt one needs to have the latest version. If it is
needed, !SunStudio is a free download, though there's a lack of disk space
on t2, so I am not keen to install it now.
BTW, there's several errors in the R guide about Solaris, which I have
raised, but I've had no positive response about. First I sent to the
r-help, but was told they should go to r-devel or the bug database. Then
after sending them to r-devel it was ignored. Then a reminder got ignored
too. I guess I should submit them to the bug database.
Dave
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