R devel - Jun 1999 - R on AIX (>4.2)

Hi,

  I'm determined to get R compiling & running on a machine running AIX
4.2.  I've seen previous emails in the archive about this topic.  The
main obstacle is getting dynamic loading to work, but it works for Tcl
and hence is feasable.

  Questions:
  - is anybody _currently_ working with R on AIX?
  - why have previous fixes to the sources not been introduced into
    the released versions?


Thanks,
  -tom

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[Subject above:  You probably mean, ">= 4.2" right ?]
>>>>> "TomV" == Thomas Vogels <tov at
infiniti.ece.cmu.edu> writes:
    TomV>   I'm determined to get R compiling & running on a machine
    TomV> running AIX 4.2.
Great!   
Thank you in advance.

    TomV> I've seen previous emails in the archive about
    TomV> this topic.  The main obstacle is getting dynamic loading to
    TomV> work, but it works for Tcl and hence is feasable.

yes and yes.

    TomV> Questions:
    TomV>   - is anybody _currently_ working with R on AIX?  
don't know
    TomV>   - why have previous fixes to the sources not been introduced into
    TomV>     the released versions?
I think we have never seen fixes patchable into the main sources.
The only place I've heard that got it working was  uni-essen.de
and they seem to have used an almost completely different version of
src/unix/dynload.c  from Heiner Schwarte
(and I think I've never seen their version..).

Yes, it would really be great if this problem could finally be solved!

Martin Maechler <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch>
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