R devel - Jul 2001 - Compiling R (1.3.0) on AIX (4.3) fails (PR#1034)

Hi,

This email reports bugs in acinclude.m4, src/library/tcltk/src/Makefile,
and share/perl/Rd2contents.pl.  It is based on R-patched.tgz from 07/27/2001
(R 1.3.0) and comes from trying to compile R on AIX 4.3.

1) acinclude.m4:  A string on line 3096 starts with a single quote: ' but
is terminated with a double quote: ".  (This leads to the weird error
message that configure can't execute 'shared' on line 4060.)
     The fix is simply to use single quotes both times:
allow_undefined_flag='${wl}-berok'

2) after configure (with CC=gcc but using AIX's linker /usr/bin/ld), the
Makefile in src/library/tcltk/src doesn't protect the linker flags -bI
with -Xlinker! (-Xlinker is required when using gcc so that the linker flags
are passed on to ld correctly.  Which I know that you know...)
  The fix is to add -Xlinker before every -bI. Sorry, haven't looked into
patching configure yet...

3) Rd2contents.pl:  this perl script fails in the base library!  There are
too many files in the man directory and perl reports 'glob failed'. 
When I
try 'ls man/*.Rd'  bash also reports that the argument list is too long.
I
don't know whether this limitation comes from AIX, bash or perl and why it
doesn't happen with, say, Linux.
The fix is to replace the simple while loop (line 6):
  while(<$ARGV[0]/man/*.Rd>){ &do_one; }

with a loop over the contents of the directory using readdir:

if (opendir RD, "$ARGV[0]/man") {
    my $f;
    while (defined ($f = readdir RD)) {
     $_ = "$ARGV[0]/man/$f", &do_one if $f =~ m,.Rd$,;
    }
    closedir RD;
}

A) tkConfig.sh contains a line like this:
   TK_XINCLUDES='# no special path needed'
This has nothing to do with R proper but this bug which is either in AIX or
the local installation of X shows up during the compilation of R.  Anyhow,
this line is plain stupid since when passed on to the compiler _comments
out_ the rest of the line!  (Think about:
  gcc fine_program.c #no special path needed -lX11 -Xm
)  The fix is to use "TK_XINCLUDES=''" in tkConfig.sh
Again, I know this is not a problem with R but I'm adding it here for people
to find if they use the mailing list archive.

After these changes R compiles (producing warnings about duplicate
symbols...) and installs.  'make check' fails in mva--report to follow.

Regards,
  -tom

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On Sun, 29 Jul 2001 vogels@cmu.edu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This email reports bugs in acinclude.m4, src/library/tcltk/src/Makefile,
> and share/perl/Rd2contents.pl.  It is based on R-patched.tgz from
07/27/2001
> (R 1.3.0) and comes from trying to compile R on AIX 4.3.
Would that be 2001-07-27?  Not all of us live in countries that flout ISO
standards!
> 1) acinclude.m4:  A string on line 3096 starts with a single quote: '
but
> is terminated with a double quote: ".  (This leads to the weird error
> message that configure can't execute 'shared' on line 4060.)
>      The fix is simply to use single quotes both times:
> allow_undefined_flag='${wl}-berok'
That is a generated file.  It coems from m4/libtool.m4.
> 2) after configure (with CC=gcc but using AIX's linker /usr/bin/ld),
the
> Makefile in src/library/tcltk/src doesn't protect the linker flags -bI
> with -Xlinker! (-Xlinker is required when using gcc so that the linker
flags
> are passed on to ld correctly.  Which I know that you know...)
>   The fix is to add -Xlinker before every -bI. Sorry, haven't looked
into
> patching configure yet...
>
> 3) Rd2contents.pl:  this perl script fails in the base library!  There are
> too many files in the man directory and perl reports 'glob failed'.
When I
> try 'ls man/*.Rd'  bash also reports that the argument list is too
long.  I
(! That looks like a bash bug.  Your bash version is ?  sh is supposed ot
have no line length limits.)
> don't know whether this limitation comes from AIX, bash or perl and why
it
> doesn't happen with, say, Linux.
Do you have a current perl?  Globbing was changed in 5.6.0 to be handled
in C code, as I recall.  It does not happen on Solaris, Linux or Windows,
and I suspect a perl upgrade might fix it.  Try 5.6.1, if you are not
already using it.
> The fix is to replace the simple while loop (line 6):
>   while(<$ARGV[0]/man/*.Rd>){ &do_one; }
>
> with a loop over the contents of the directory using readdir:
>
> if (opendir RD, "$ARGV[0]/man") {
>     my $f;
>     while (defined ($f = readdir RD)) {
>      $_ = "$ARGV[0]/man/$f", &do_one if $f =~ m,.Rd$,;
>     }
>     closedir RD;
> }
(slower and less portable if it is not needed.)

Your perl version is ?

> A) tkConfig.sh contains a line like this:
>    TK_XINCLUDES='# no special path needed'
> This has nothing to do with R proper but this bug which is either in AIX or
> the local installation of X shows up during the compilation of R.  Anyhow,
> this line is plain stupid since when passed on to the compiler _comments
> out_ the rest of the line!  (Think about:
>   gcc fine_program.c #no special path needed -lX11 -Xm
> )  The fix is to use "TK_XINCLUDES=''" in tkConfig.sh
> Again, I know this is not a problem with R but I'm adding it here for
people
> to find if they use the mailing list archive.
>
> After these changes R compiles (producing warnings about duplicate
> symbols...) and installs.  'make check' fails in mva--report to
follow.
>
> Regards,
>   -tom
>
> --
> Email: vogels@cmu.edu
>
>
>
>
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