[Rd] xmkmf? problem

Prof Brian Ripley ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Fri Apr 14 11:14:14 CEST 2006


I've added some protection to configure, so you might like to try again 
with tomorrow's beta or later.

On Fri, 14 Apr 2006, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

> There are two problems here.  The more important one is with your OS, which 
> seems not to have its X11 stuff correct, so cc is not being found
> (and you cannot set it).  R's configure has no protection against that.
>
> You can investigate that by
>
> blackduck% touch Imakefile
> blackduck% xmkmf
> imake -DUseInstalled -I/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/config
> blackduck% grep CC Makefile
> ...
>
> which is what R does.  I presume that this will also fail if you compile R 
> out-of-the-box with gcc?  If that works and pgcc does not then something else 
> in your settings is amiss.
>
> The second is that if you are using a different compiler from that used to 
> make X11, you may need to set CPICFLAGS etc.  But we know about pgcc on Linux 
> and so these will be set (but not necessarily SHLIB_LDFLAGS: see the R-admin 
> manual).
>
> On Thu, 13 Apr 2006, Paul Gilbert wrote:
>
>> 
>> Brian
>> 
>> Yes cc is empty. Perhaps I should have mentioned that I have set CC=pgcc, 
>> to find the new compiler. Should I be setting cc too? Is there a problem if 
>> the compiler used for X11 was different?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Paul
>> 
>> Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
>>> On Thu, 13 Apr 2006, Paul Gilbert wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I am having the  xmkmf  problem below with todays beta, but I also am
>>>> trying to use an new (PGI 6.1),  so lots of other things in my setup may
>>>> be wrong, and the warning may also be important. Any hints would be
>>>> appreciated.
>>> 
>>> My guess is that this is from
>>>
>>>   cc=`${srcdir}/tools/GETMAKEVAL CC`
>>>   cc=`echo ${cc} | sed "s/ .*//"`
>>>   if test "`which ${cc}`" = "`which ${CC}`"; then
>>>     shlib_ldflags=`${srcdir}/tools/GETMAKEVAL SHLIBLDFLAGS`
>>>     cpicflags=`${srcdir}/tools/GETMAKEVAL PICFLAGS`
>>>   fi
>>>   cxx=`${srcdir}/tools/GETMAKEVAL CXX`
>>>   cxx=`echo ${cxx} | sed "s/ .*//"`
>>>   if test "`which ${cxx}`" = "`which ${CXX}`"; then
>>>     cxxpicflags=`${srcdir}/tools/GETMAKEVAL CXXPICFLAGS`
>>>   fi
>>> 
>>> in configure and so either your compilers are not set correctly or your 
>>> OS's X11 does not find the compilers used to compile it.
>>> 
>>> I'd start by inserting debugging code in configure at that point to find 
>>> out what ${cc} and ${CC} are, with the expectation that one is empty.
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Paul
>>>> _____
>>>> 
>>>> Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 3 (Taroon Update 7)
>>>> ....
>>>> checking whether C runtime needs -D__NO_MATH_INLINES... no
>>>> checking for xmkmf... /usr/X11R6/bin/xmkmf
>>>> Usage: which [options] [--] programname [...]
>>>> Options: --version, -[vV] Print version and exit successfully.
>>>>         --help,          Print this help and exit successfully.
>>>>         --skip-dot       Skip directories in PATH that start with a dot.
>>>>         --skip-tilde     Skip directories in PATH that start with a 
>>>> tilde.
>>>>         --show-dot       Don't expand a dot to current directory in 
>>>> output.
>>>>         --show-tilde     Output a tilde for HOME directory for non-root.
>>>>         --tty-only       Stop processing options on the right if not on
>>>> tty.
>>>>         --all, -a        Print all matches in PATH, not just the first
>>>>         --read-alias, -i Read list of aliases from stdin.
>>>>         --skip-alias     Ignore option --read-alias; don't read stdin.
>>>>         --read-functions Read shell functions from stdin.
>>>>         --skip-functions Ignore option --read-functions; don't read 
>>>> stdin.
>>>> Usage: which [options] [--] programname [...]
>>>> Options: --version, -[vV] Print version and exit successfully.
>>>>         --help,          Print this help and exit successfully.
>>>>         --skip-dot       Skip directories in PATH that start with a dot.
>>>>         --skip-tilde     Skip directories in PATH that start with a 
>>>> tilde.
>>>>         --show-dot       Don't expand a dot to current directory in 
>>>> output.
>>>>         --show-tilde     Output a tilde for HOME directory for non-root.
>>>>         --tty-only       Stop processing options on the right if not on
>>>> tty.
>>>>         --all, -a        Print all matches in PATH, not just the first
>>>>         --read-alias, -i Read list of aliases from stdin.
>>>>         --skip-alias     Ignore option --read-alias; don't read stdin.
>>>>         --read-functions Read shell functions from stdin.
>>>>         --skip-functions Ignore option --read-functions; don't read 
>>>> stdin.
>>>> configure: WARNING: I could not determine SHLIB_LDFLAGS.
>>>> configure: error: See the file doc/html/R-admin.html for more 
>>>> information.
>>>> ~/toolchain/R/mfa04559/R-beta:
>>>> ==================================================================================== 
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>>>> 
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