R devel - Oct 2014 - Trouble installing Rcpp on AIX - missing "execinfo.h"

Greetings,

When I try "install.packages('Rcpp')" it fails when compiling
api.cpp (line 39). This is Rcpp 0.11.3. I searched my filesystem, and indeed I
do not have execinfo.h anywhere. After some effort, I got R build on AIX. Now I
am trying to build the packages I need. Rcpp is crucial.

I first build R with the native IBM XL compilers, and Rcpp wouldn't build.
That was because it wasn't a "GOOD COMPILER" (there's a
directive in the Rcpp code that checks for various types of compilers). So I
switched to building R with gcc/gfortran/g++ 4.8 and got past that point, but
now blocked by the absence of "execinfo.h" header file.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Mike

Mike,

Perhaps this will help: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-04/msg00346.html

Regards,
Ed Davignon

On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 12:13 AM, Mike Beddo <Mike.Beddo at
dataventures.com>
wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> When I try "install.packages('Rcpp')" it fails when
compiling api.cpp
> (line 39). This is Rcpp 0.11.3. I searched my filesystem, and indeed I do
> not have execinfo.h anywhere. After some effort, I got R build on AIX. Now
> I am trying to build the packages I need. Rcpp is crucial.
>
> I first build R with the native IBM XL compilers, and Rcpp wouldn't
build.
> That was because it wasn't a "GOOD COMPILER" (there's a
directive in the
> Rcpp code that checks for various types of compilers). So I switched to
> building R with gcc/gfortran/g++ 4.8 and got past that point, but now
> blocked by the absence of "execinfo.h" header file.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mike
>
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>
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On 30 October 2014 at 04:13, Mike Beddo wrote:
| Greetings,
| 
| When I try "install.packages('Rcpp')" it fails when
compiling api.cpp (line 39). This is Rcpp 0.11.3. I searched my filesystem, and
indeed I do not have execinfo.h anywhere. After some effort, I got R build on
AIX. Now I am trying to build the packages I need. Rcpp is crucial.
| 
| I first build R with the native IBM XL compilers, and Rcpp wouldn't build.
That was because it wasn't a "GOOD COMPILER" (there's a
directive in the Rcpp code that checks for various types of compilers). So I
switched to building R with gcc/gfortran/g++ 4.8 and got past that point, but
now blocked by the absence of "execinfo.h" header file.
| 
| Any ideas?

I would have replied sooner if you had used the proper list -- which for
matters pertaining to Rcpp is the rcpp-devel list (and note that you need
subscribe first in order to post).

For systems we do not have access to -- like Solaris, Aix, or equally antique
and rarified Unix systems -- we do rely on those having access to run tests.
Worst case we can #ifdef some features away so that you can build with a
possibly sightly reduced feature set.  But you, or someone else on Aix, needs
to drive this as we can't.

Dirk

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