[R] Are sockets supported on Irix?

Prof Brian Ripley ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Tue Mar 20 16:33:11 CET 2001


On Tue, 20 Mar 2001 Setzer.Woodrow at epamail.epa.gov wrote:

> When I try to open a server socket on the system setup listed below, I get
> the following error:
>
> > a <- make.socket(port=8091,server=TRUE)
> Error in make.socket(port = 8091, server = TRUE) :
>         sockets are not available on this system
>
> I just wanted to make sure that sockets were generally available for this
> platform (or, perhaps, I need to upgrade to 1.2.2 on this system), before I
> got our generally overworked system administrators to look into the problem
> here.  Thanks.

I don't know about that system. The message means that configure set
HAVE_BSD_NETWORKING to be not defined, and to define it headers
netdb.h, netinet/in.h and sys/socket.h are needed and connect
and gethostbyname need to be found.  You need to look in config.log to see
what happened.

It's possible that you need to specify some other libraries via LIBS.
We are not aware of many people using Irix, nor of many people using that
socket mechanism, so the intersection might be empty.

>
> Version:
>  platform = mips-sgi-irix6.5
>  arch = mips
>  os = irix6.5
>  system = mips, irix6.5
>  status =
>  major = 1
>  minor = 2.1
>  year = 2001
>  month = 01
>  day = 15
>  language = R
>
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