[Rd] AIX testers needed

[Ei-ji Nakama]

Hi,
Thank you for the test.
What did the compiler use?

I am making the  wrapper that uses iconv of AIX.
However, there is still an bug...


2007/4/20, Daniel Platt <watplatt at us.ibm.com>:
> Hi,
>
> The build worked smoothly.
>
> 'install.packages("e1071")' worked correctly (this used to crash on the
> only version I had managed to build before).
>
> I have noticed that there are a lot of permissions that I had to check
> after I did a "make install" .
>
> "make check" failed with the following message:
>
> watplatt at haplo.watson.ibm.com:/geno4/watplatt/R/R-rc $ make check
> make[1]: Entering directory `/geno4/watplatt/R/R-rc/tests'
> make[2]: Entering directory `/geno4/watplatt/R/R-rc/tests'
> make[3]: Entering directory `/geno4/watplatt/R/R-rc/tests/Examples'
> make[4]: Entering directory `/geno4/watplatt/R/R-rc/tests/Examples'
> make[4]: `Makedeps' is up to date.
> make[4]: Leaving directory `/geno4/watplatt/R/R-rc/tests/Examples'
> make[4]: Entering directory `/geno4/watplatt/R/R-rc/tests/Examples'
> running code in 'base-Ex.R' ...make[4]: *** [base-Ex.Rout] Error 1
> make[4]: Leaving directory `/geno4/watplatt/R/R-rc/tests/Examples'
> make[3]: *** [test-Examples-Base] Error 2
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/geno4/watplatt/R/R-rc/tests/Examples'
> make[2]: *** [test-Examples] Error 2
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/geno4/watplatt/R/R-rc/tests'
> make[1]: *** [test-all-basics] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/geno4/watplatt/R/R-rc/tests'
> make: *** [check] Error 2
> watplatt at haplo.watson.ibm.com:/geno4/watplatt/R/R-rc $
>
> The log file indicates the error is due to iconv not being available on
> the system.  (Specifically, configure would not run without the iconv flag
> being set to "no").
>
> Dan
>
> Daniel E. Platt
> Bioinformatics and Pattern Discovery
> IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
> Yorktown Hgts, NY 10598
> (914)945-1388
>
>
>
> Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk>
> 03/29/2007 02:27 AM
>
> To
> R-devel at R-project.org
> cc
> Matthew Beason <mbeason at harrahs.com>, Tiong Lim <t.lim at auckland.ac.nz>,
> "Sheth, Jagat K" <jagat.k.sheth at citigroup.com>, kamil Marcinkowski
> <kamil at ualberta.ca>, Eric Harley <ericctharley at gmail.com>, Roy Heimbach
> <royh at hpc.unm.edu>, Daniel Platt/Watson/IBM at IBMUS
> Subject
> AIX testers needed
>
>
>
>
>
>
> With much thanks to Ei-ji Nakama, R 2.5.0 alpha supports building on AIX
> (at least AIX 5.2 on one system).
>
> Would anyone able to test this please get the latest tarball from
>
> http://cran.r-project.org/src/base-prerelease/R-latest.tar.gz
>
> and try installing (after reading the AIX notes in R-admin.html section
> C.9).
>
> In particular it would be very helpful to know if
>
> 1) --enable-BLAS-shlib works (it is the default everywhere except AIX and
> Darwin)
>
> 2) if people succeed in installing GNU libiconv and building without
> needing --without-iconv.
>
> I am Cc:ing all the people I tracked down who reported attempted AIX
> installations in 2006 in the hope that they may still be interested.
>
> Please report success and any hints or problems in the R-devel list.
>
> --
> Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
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