R devel - Feb 2010 - Compiling R on Linux with SunStudio 12.1: "wide-character type" problems

I am trying to compile R on Linux using SunStudio. Configure flags are
mostly as suggested in the R install guide.

CC=/opt/sun/sunstudio12.1/bin/suncc
CFLAGS="-g -xc99 -xlibmil -xlibmieee"
MAIN_CFLAGS=-g
SHLIB_CFLAGS=-g
CPPFLAGS="-I. -I/opt/sun/sunstudio12.1/prod/include
-I/opt/sun/sunstudio12.1/prod/include/cc"
CPPFLAGS+="-I/opt/sun/sunstudio12.1/prod/include/cc/sys
-I/usr/local/include"
F77=/opt/sun/sunstudio12.1/bin/sunf95
FFLAGS="-g -O -libmil "
SAFE_FFLAGS="-g -libmil"
CPICFLAGS=-Kpic
FPICFLAGS=-Kpic
SHLIB_LDFLAGS=-shared
LDFLAGS=-L/opt/sun/sunstudio12.1/lib/386
CXX=/opt/sun/sunstudio12.1/bin/sunCC
CXXFLAGS="-g -xlibmil -xlibmieee"
CXXPICFLAGS=-Kpic
SHLIB_CXXLDFLAGS="-G -lCstd"
FC=/opt/sun/sunstudio12.1/bin/sunf95
FCFLAGS=$FFLAGS
FCPICFLAGS=-Kpic
MAKE=dmake

R install guide also indicates that: "The OS needs to have enough support
for wide-character types: this is checked at configuration. Specifically,
the C99 functionality of headers wchar.h and wctype.h, types wctans_t and
mbstate_t and functions mbrtowc, mbstowcs, wcrtomb, wcscoll, wcstombs,
wctrans, wctype, and iswctype."
Configure stops with the following error message:

checking iconv.h usability... yes
checking iconv.h presence... yes
checking for iconv.h... yes
checking for iconv... in libiconv
checking whether iconv accepts "UTF-8", "latin1" and
"UCS-"... yes
checking for iconvlist... yes
checking wchar.h usability... yes
checking wchar.h presence... yes
checking for wchar.h... yes
checking wctype.h usability... yes
checking wctype.h presence... yes
checking for wctype.h... yes
checking whether mbrtowc exists and is declared... yes
checking whether wcrtomb exists and is declared... yes
checking whether wcscoll exists and is declared... yes
checking whether wcsftime exists and is declared... yes
checking whether wcstod exists and is declared... yes
checking whether mbstowcs exists and is declared... yes
checking whether wcstombs exists and is declared... yes
**checking whether wctrans exists and is declared... no
checking whether iswblank exists and is declared... no
checking whether wctype exists and is declared... no
checking whether iswctype exists and is declared... no
configure: error: Support for MBCS locales is required.*

Relevant parts of config.log are as follows:

configure:39472: checking whether iswctype exists and is declared
configure:39510: /opt/sun/sunstudio12.1/bin/suncc -o conftest -g -xc99
-xlibmil -xlibmieee -m32  -I. -I/opt/sun/sunstudio12.1/prod/include
-I/opt/sun/sunstudio12.1/prod/include/cc-I/opt/sun/sunstudio12.1/prod/include/cc/sys
-I/usr/local/include  -L/opt/sun/sunstudio12.1/lib/386 -L/usr/local/lib
conftest.c -ldl -lm  -liconv >&5
*"/usr/include/wctype.h", line 112: syntax error before or at: __wc
"/usr/include/wctype.h", line 195: syntax error before or at: towlower
"/usr/include/wctype.h", line 302: syntax error before or at:
towupper_l
"/usr/include/wctype.h", line 302: syntax error before or at: __wc
"/usr/include/wctype.h", line 310: syntax error before or at:
towctrans_l
"/usr/include/wctype.h", line 310: syntax error before or at: __wc
cc: acomp failed for conftest.c
configure:39516: $? = 1
configure: failed program was:
| /* confdefs.h.  */
*| #define PACKAGE_NAME "R"
........
........
*| #include <wctype.h>
*|
| #ifdef F77_DUMMY_MAIN
|
| #  ifdef __cplusplus
|      extern "C"
| #  endif
|    int F77_DUMMY_MAIN() { return 1; }
|
| #endif
*| int
| main ()
| {
| #ifndef iswctype
|   char *p = (char *) iswctype;
| #endif
|
|   ;
|   return 0;
| }
configure:39534: result: no
configure:39710: error: Support for MBCS locales is required.*

I am not sure if this is a Linux issue or if it is a SunStudio issue.  Has
anybody tried to compile R on Linux using SunStudio?

Thanks in advance,

Russ

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Russ,

This is a known issue with Sun Studio on Linux and was fixed by Brian
Ripley in January. If you download R-patched.tar.gz from here:

ftp://ftp.stat.math.ethz.ch/Software/R/

then it should work for you.

Martyn

On Mon, 2010-02-22 at 13:11 -0600, rt wrote:
> I am trying to compile R on Linux using SunStudio. Configure flags are
> mostly as suggested in the R install guide.
> 
> CC=/opt/sun/sunstudio12.1/bin/suncc
> CFLAGS="-g -xc99 -xlibmil -xlibmieee"
> MAIN_CFLAGS=-g
> SHLIB_CFLAGS=-g
> CPPFLAGS="-I. -I/opt/sun/sunstudio12.1/prod/include
> -I/opt/sun/sunstudio12.1/prod/include/cc"
> CPPFLAGS+="-I/opt/sun/sunstudio12.1/prod/include/cc/sys
> -I/usr/local/include"
> F77=/opt/sun/sunstudio12.1/bin/sunf95
> FFLAGS="-g -O -libmil "
> SAFE_FFLAGS="-g -libmil"
> CPICFLAGS=-Kpic
> FPICFLAGS=-Kpic
> SHLIB_LDFLAGS=-shared
> LDFLAGS=-L/opt/sun/sunstudio12.1/lib/386
> CXX=/opt/sun/sunstudio12.1/bin/sunCC
> CXXFLAGS="-g -xlibmil -xlibmieee"
> CXXPICFLAGS=-Kpic
> SHLIB_CXXLDFLAGS="-G -lCstd"
> FC=/opt/sun/sunstudio12.1/bin/sunf95
> FCFLAGS=$FFLAGS
> FCPICFLAGS=-Kpic
> MAKE=dmake
> 
> R install guide also indicates that: "The OS needs to have enough
support
> for wide-character types: this is checked at configuration. Specifically,
> the C99 functionality of headers wchar.h and wctype.h, types wctans_t and
> mbstate_t and functions mbrtowc, mbstowcs, wcrtomb, wcscoll, wcstombs,
> wctrans, wctype, and iswctype."
> Configure stops with the following error message:
> 
> checking iconv.h usability... yes
> checking iconv.h presence... yes
> checking for iconv.h... yes
> checking for iconv... in libiconv
> checking whether iconv accepts "UTF-8", "latin1" and
"UCS-"... yes
> checking for iconvlist... yes
> checking wchar.h usability... yes
> checking wchar.h presence... yes
> checking for wchar.h... yes
> checking wctype.h usability... yes
> checking wctype.h presence... yes
> checking for wctype.h... yes
> checking whether mbrtowc exists and is declared... yes
> checking whether wcrtomb exists and is declared... yes
> checking whether wcscoll exists and is declared... yes
> checking whether wcsftime exists and is declared... yes
> checking whether wcstod exists and is declared... yes
> checking whether mbstowcs exists and is declared... yes
> checking whether wcstombs exists and is declared... yes
> **checking whether wctrans exists and is declared... no
> checking whether iswblank exists and is declared... no
> checking whether wctype exists and is declared... no
> checking whether iswctype exists and is declared... no
> configure: error: Support for MBCS locales is required.*
> 
> Relevant parts of config.log are as follows:
> 
> configure:39472: checking whether iswctype exists and is declared
> configure:39510: /opt/sun/sunstudio12.1/bin/suncc -o conftest -g -xc99
> -xlibmil -xlibmieee -m32  -I. -I/opt/sun/sunstudio12.1/prod/include
>
-I/opt/sun/sunstudio12.1/prod/include/cc-I/opt/sun/sunstudio12.1/prod/include/cc/sys
> -I/usr/local/include  -L/opt/sun/sunstudio12.1/lib/386 -L/usr/local/lib
> conftest.c -ldl -lm  -liconv >&5
> *"/usr/include/wctype.h", line 112: syntax error before or at:
__wc
> "/usr/include/wctype.h", line 195: syntax error before or at:
towlower
> "/usr/include/wctype.h", line 302: syntax error before or at:
towupper_l
> "/usr/include/wctype.h", line 302: syntax error before or at:
__wc
> "/usr/include/wctype.h", line 310: syntax error before or at:
towctrans_l
> "/usr/include/wctype.h", line 310: syntax error before or at:
__wc
> cc: acomp failed for conftest.c
> configure:39516: $? = 1
> configure: failed program was:
> | /* confdefs.h.  */
> *| #define PACKAGE_NAME "R"
> ........
> ........
> *| #include <wctype.h>
> *|
> | #ifdef F77_DUMMY_MAIN
> |
> | #  ifdef __cplusplus
> |      extern "C"
> | #  endif
> |    int F77_DUMMY_MAIN() { return 1; }
> |
> | #endif
> *| int
> | main ()
> | {
> | #ifndef iswctype
> |   char *p = (char *) iswctype;
> | #endif
> |
> |   ;
> |   return 0;
> | }
> configure:39534: result: no
> configure:39710: error: Support for MBCS locales is required.*
> 
> I am not sure if this is a Linux issue or if it is a SunStudio issue.  Has
> anybody tried to compile R on Linux using SunStudio?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Russ
> 
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Hi Martyn,

Thanks for the help. It works like a charm. I was able to compile and
valgrind+R from SunStudio.

Russ


You can work around this by disabling large file support
(configure
> --disable-largefile).
>
> This seems to be another glibc bug. In the header glob.h, there are two
> lines where the pre-processor fails to check that __GNUC__ is defined,
> and it isn't defined when using Sun Studio.
>
> Evidently, glibc was designed to work with gcc and has not been
> extensively tested with other compilers, or other vendors have learned
> to work around the bugs.
>
> Martyn
>
>
> On Tue, 2010-02-23 at 16:55 -0600, rt wrote:
> > Thank you Martyn,
> >
> > I am one step closer.  Using R-patched, configure was successful.
> However,
> > make exited with an error.
> >
> > Configure summary:
> > Installation directory:    /usr/local
> >   C compiler:                /opt/sun/sunstudio12.1/bin/suncc  -g -O
> -xc99
> > -xlibmil -m32  -xlibmieee -nofstore
> >   Fortran 77 compiler:       /opt/sun/sunstudio12.1/bin/sunf95  -g -O
> > -libmil  -m32 -nofstore
> >   C++ compiler:              /opt/sun/sunstudio12.1/bin/sunCC  -g -O
> > -xlibmil -m32 -xlibmieee -nofstore
> >   Fortran 90/95 compiler:    /opt/sun/sunstudio12.1/bin/sunf95 -g -O
> > -libmil  -m32 -nofstore
> >   Obj-C compiler:
> >   Interfaces supported:      X11, tcltk
> >   External libraries:        readline, ICU, lzma
> >   Additional capabilities:   PNG, JPEG, NLS, cairo
> >   Options enabled:           shared BLAS, R profiling, Java
> >   Recommended packages:      yes
> >
> > MAKE error:
> > make returned an error related to platform.c and glob.h.
> > It seems that glob.h has a poiter to struct dirent {..}, platorm.c has
> > struct dirent64 {..}.
> > Error message:
> >   /opt/sun/sunstudio12.1/bin/suncc
> >   -I../../src/extra   -I. -I../../src/include -I../../src/include -I.
> >   -I/opt/sun/sunstudio12.1/prod/include
> >
> >
>
-I/opt/sun/sunstudio12.1/prod/include/cc-I/opt/sun/sunstudio12.1/prod/include/cc/sys
> >
> >   -DHAVE_CONFIG_H   -g -g -O -xc99 -xlibmil -m32  -xlibmieee -nofstore
> >   -c platform.c -o platform.o
> > "/usr/include/glob.h", line 175: identifier redeclared:
glob64
> >  current : function(pointer to const char, int, pointer to
function(..)
> > returning int, pointer to struct  {unsigned int gl_pathc, pointer to
> pointer
> > to char gl_pathv, unsigned int gl_offs, int gl_flags, pointer to
> > function(..) returning void gl_closedir, pointer to function(..)
> returning
> > pointer to struct dirent64 {..} gl_readdir, pointer to function(..)
> > returning pointer to void gl_opendir, pointer to function(..)
returning
> int
> > gl_lstat, pointer to function(..) returning int gl_stat}) returning
int
> >  previous: function(pointer to const char, int, pointer to
function(..)
> > returning int, pointer to struct  {unsigned int gl_pathc, pointer to
> pointer
> > to char gl_pathv, unsigned int gl_offs, int gl_flags, pointer to
> > function(..) returning void gl_closedir, pointer to function(..)
> returning
> > pointer to struct dirent {..} gl_readdir, pointer to function(..)
> returning
> > pointer to void gl_opendir, pointer to function(..) returning int
> gl_lstat,
> > pointer to function(..) returning int gl_stat}) returning int :
> > "/usr/include/glob.h", line 159
> >
> > My cpu is correctly identified as i386 and I included the flag -m32.
Do I
> > need to specify architecture separately?
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > Russ
> >
> > > Russ,
> > >
> > > This is a known issue with Sun Studio on Linux and was fixed by
Brian
> > > Ripley in January. If you download R-patched.tar.gz from here:
> > >
> > > ftp://ftp.stat.math.ethz.ch/Software/R/
> > >
> > > then it should work for you.
> > >
> > > Martyn
> > >
> > > On Mon, 2010-02-22 at 13:11 -0600, rt wrote:
> > > > I am trying to compile R on Linux using SunStudio. Configure
flags
> are
> > > > mostly as suggested in the R install guide.
> > > >> R install guide also indicates that: "The OS needs
to have enough
> > > support
> > > > for wide-character types: this is checked at configuration.
> Specifically,
> > > > the C99 functionality of headers wchar.h and wctype.h, types
wctans_t
> and
> > > > mbstate_t and functions mbrtowc, mbstowcs, wcrtomb, wcscoll,
> wcstombs,
> > > > wctrans, wctype, and iswctype."
> > > > Configure stops with the following error message:
> > > >
> > > > configure:39534: result: no
> > > > configure:39710: error: Support for MBCS locales is
required.*
> > > >
> > > > I am not sure if this is a Linux issue or if it is a
SunStudio issue.
> > >  Has
> > > > anybody tried to compile R on Linux using SunStudio?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks in advance,
> > > >
> > > > Russ
> > > >
> >
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> >
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> > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
>
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