[Rd] problems compiling R on AIX5.1

[Harald Servat Gelabert]

Dear all,

after trying to compile R on our IBM Power3/AIX 5.1 machine I've
been able to run it correctly.

First of all I would thank all who responded my mails.

I explain here how I've done it:

First of all, it seems that configure and some shared libraries of
AIX does not work at the same time. I tried to configure & make with
the following environment vars

CC=xlc
F77=xlf
CCC=xlC
CFLAGS=-O3 -qstrict -qmaxmem=8192
FFLAGS=-O3 -qstrict -qmaxmem=8192
MAIN_LDFLAGS=-Wl,-brtl
SHLIB_LDFLAGS=-Wl,-G
CXXFLAGS=-O2 -qmaxmem=8192
FC=xlf
CCFLAGS=-O3 -qstrict -qmaxmem=8192

But for some reason at make the compilation failed when trying to
locate a shared library for X. For this reason I tried to discard
shared libraries enabling --disable-shared on configure, but this 
didn't help (Nor removing MAIN_LDFLAGS and SHLIB_LDFLAGS). Next I
tried to compile without X environment and I got the following error

...


* Installing *source* package 'foreign' ...
creating cache ./config.cache
checking for gcc... xlc
checking whether the C compiler (xlc -O2 -qmaxmem=8192 ) works... yes
checking whether the C compiler (xlc -O2 -qmaxmem=8192 ) is a cross-compiler...
yes
checking whether we are using GNU C... no
checking whether xlc accepts -g... yes
checking how to run the C preprocessor... xlc -E
checking for byteswap.h... no
checking size of double... 8
checking size of int... 4
checking size of long... 4
updating cache ./config.cache
creating ./config.status
creating src/var.h
creating src/swap_bytes.h
** libs
        xlc -I/scratch_tmp/harald/R-1.6.1/include  -I/usr/local/include     -O2
-qmaxmem=8192 -c SASxport.c -o SASxport.o
"foreign.h", line 51.13: 1506-334 (S) Identifier int32 has already been defined
on line 633 of "/usr/include/sys/inttypes.h".
"foreign.h", line 52.15: 1506-334 (S) Identifier int16 has already been defined
on line 632 of "/usr/include/sys/inttypes.h".
make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 1.

Stop.
ERROR: compilation failed for package 'foreign'
make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 5.

...

At this point I was looking for foreign.h, but it was in a TAR.GZ! 
I place comment on lines 51 and 52 for taking int16/int32 out
(as AIX headers does define them and XLC fails compiling -- 
 while GCC continues showing only a warning!)
When those lines were commented I make a new TAR.GZ and update the
softlink to the modified version.


With this modifications the main program where created. Was time
for 'make check'... and failed! There was a problem on ESSL and
R, so I forced R not to use the default BLAS (ESSL) of the machine
(--without-blas).

After removing all temporal files, reconfiguring and recompiling
the make check WORK PROPERLY! :D

In brief, the environment I used to compile was

CC=xlc
F77=xlf
CCC=xlC
CFLAGS=-O3 -qstrict -qmaxmem=8192
FFLAGS=-O3 -qstrict -qmaxmem=8192
MAIN_LDFLAGS=-Wl,-brtl
SHLIB_LDFLAGS=-Wl,-G
CXXFLAGS=-O2 -qmaxmem=8192
FC=xlf
CCFLAGS=-O3 -qstrict -qmaxmem=8192

./configure --prefix=YOURDIRECTORY --without-x --without-blas

As our machine and our user plans to use R only for a compute
intesive calculations there's no need to use X. So this 
compilation is perfect for our purposes.

Many thanks to all!,

-- 
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