[R] How to build R-base on Mandrake 8.1 ?

[Prof Brian Ripley]

Do you have enough tmp space?

double.f is large, and compiling with -g -O2 takes up a lot of space in
whereever you compiler is set to use (/tmp?, /var/tmp?).  My experience is
that gcc does segfault if it runs out of space.  I've even seen it
compiling double.c.

The current gcc is 3.0.2, but 3.0.1 used to build R for me on RH Linux.


On Sun, 18 Nov 2001 mikalzet at libero.it wrote:

>
> I have recently done a clean install of Mandrake 8.1 and am trying to
> compile R with an aim to preparing a working RPM.
> If anyone has managed to compile R-base on a Mandrake 8.1 please tell me.
> When I try, R-base build keeps on failing both with gcc-2.96 and
> gcc-3.0.1, no matter what the optimizations. The details vary according to
> the choice of compiler and options, but failure is during build of lapack.
> Installing the liblapack3 and liblapack3-devel rpms present on the
> Mandrake 8.1 distribution hasn't solved the problem.

R won't use those: there's a bug in the lapack source,s so we need our own
patched version.

>
> Switching between versions of gcc is simple, as /usr/bin/gcc is actually a
> link to /etc/alternatives/gcc which is a link to /usr/bin/gcc-2.96 but can
> be changed to /usr/bin/gcc-3.0.1 (or even /usr/bin/kgcc which immediately
> gives "/usr/include/stdio.h:300 parse error before `__gnuc_va_list' ").
>
> The following examples were run cleanly, i.e. the entire old build directory
> was cancelled each time. Result: five different errors in double.f, one in
> cmplx.f. I have kept the config.cache and config.log if anyone is
> interested.
>
>
> Example 1:
> 		gcc 3.0.1, no optimizations set in R-base.spec
> ....
> gcc -I. -I../../../src/include -I../../../src/include -I/usr/local/include
> -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -mieee-fp -D__NO_MATH_INLINES -fPIC  -g -O2 -c Lapack.c -o
> Lapack.lo
> g77  -fPIC  -g -O2 -c double.f -o double.lo
> double.f: In subroutine `dgees':
> double.f:2362: Internal error: Segmentation fault.
>
>
> Example 2:
> 		gcc 3.0.1, CFLAGS and FFLAGS set to $RPM-OPT-FLAGS but
> 		-ffast-math removed (this flag has always caused R build
> 		to fail in the past)
> ....
> gcc -I. -I../../../src/include -I../../../src/include -I/usr/local/include
> -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -mieee-fp -D__NO_MATH_INLINES -fPIC  -O3
> -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mcpu=pentiumpro -march=i586
> -fno-strength-reduce -c Lapack.c -o Lapack.lo
> g77  -fPIC  -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mcpu=pentiumpro -march=i586
> -fno-strength-reduce -c double.f -o double.lo
> double.f: In subroutine `dbdsqr':
> double.f:731: Internal error: Segmentation fault.
>
>
> Example 3:
> 		gcc 3.0.1, $RPM-OPT-FLAGS enabled
> ....
> gcc -I. -I../../../src/include -I../../../src/include -I/usr/local/include
> -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -mieee-fp -D__NO_MATH_INLINES -fPIC  -O3
> -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mcpu=pentiumpro -march=i586 -ffast-math
> -fno-strength-reduce -c Lapack.c -o Lapack.lo
> etc.    gives a segmentation fault in yet another subroutine of double.f
>
>
> Example 4:
>                 gcc 2.96, no optimizations set in R-base.spec
> ....
> make[4]: Entering directory
> `/home/mike/rpm/BUILD/R-1.3.1/src/modules/lapack'
> gcc -I. -I../../../src/include -I../../../src/include -I/usr/local/include
> -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -mieee-fp -D__NO_MATH_INLINES -fPIC  -g -O2 -c Lapack.c -o
> Lapack.lo
> g77  -fPIC  -g -O2 -c double.f -o double.lo
> double.f: In subroutine `dtrsyl':
> double.f:27942: Internal error: Segmentation fault.
>
>
> Example 5:
>                 gcc 2.96, CFLAGS and FFLAGS set to $RPM-OPT-FLAGS
> 		but -ffast-math removed (this flag has always caused R
> 		build to fail in the past)
> ....
> gcc -I. -I../../../src/include -I../../../src/include -I/usr/local/include
> -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -mieee-fp -D__NO_MATH_INLINES -fPIC  -O3
> -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mcpu=pentiumpro -march=i586
> -fno-strength-reduce -c Lapack.c -o Lapack.lo
> g77  -fPIC  -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mcpu=pentiumpro -march=i586
> -fno-strength-reduce -c double.f -o double.lo
> double.f: In subroutine `dgecon':
> double.f:1931: Internal error: Segmentation fault.
>
>
> Example 6:
> 		gcc 2.96, $RPM-OPT-FLAGS enabled
> ....
> mcpu=pentiumpro -march=i586 -ffast-math -fno-strength-reduce -c Lapack.c
> -o Lapack.lo
> g77  -fPIC  -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mcpu=pentiumpro -march=i586
> -ffast-math -fno-strength-reduce -c double.f -o double.lo
> g77  -fPIC  -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mcpu=pentiumpro -march=i586
> -ffast-math -fno-strength-reduce -c cmplx.f -o cmplx.lo
> cmplx.f: In subroutine `zbdsqr':
> cmplx.f:783: Internal error: Segmentation fault.
>
> Any suggestions ?
>
> --
> Dr. Michele Alzetta
>
>
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