R devel - Mar 2004 - linker errors on ia64: open.o: @gprel relocation against dynamic symbol f__buflen

hello,
I just failed to compile R 1.8.1 and also the latest beta 
R-1.9.0beta_2004-03-22.tar.gz
on an ia64 architecture. When it comes to linking the Lapack 
library, the following error occurs six times:
/usr/bin/ld: open.o: @gprel relocation against dynamic symbol 
f__buflen

Here is some diagnostic information.

uname -a
Linux hippo 2.4.21-sgi230rp03111013_10029 #1 SMP 
Mon Nov 10 13:25:42 PST 2003 ia64 unknown

gcc --version
2.96

g77 --version
GNU Fortran 0.5.26 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.2 2.96-118.7.2)

I can produce the same error messages with the following simpler 
steps:

cat >tst.f <<EOF
      SUBROUTINE DLAMC2( )
      WRITE( 6, * ) 'SOME STRING'
      RETURN
      END
EOF
g77 -c tst.f -o tst.o
gcc -shared tst.o -lg2c

Is it possible to compile R with gcc 2.96?

thanks in advance
werner

gcc 2.96 does not exist: see gcc.gnu.org.  It was never released and the 
`versions' shipped with various Linux distros are renowned for their bugs.

You almost certainly need a shared -lg2c, which has been standard for 
quite a while now (gcc 3.1 I believe).  Is there any reason now to use gcc 
3.3.3?

On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 horbelt@physik.uni-freiburg.de wrote:
> hello,
> I just failed to compile R 1.8.1 and also the latest beta 
> R-1.9.0beta_2004-03-22.tar.gz
> on an ia64 architecture. When it comes to linking the Lapack 
> library, the following error occurs six times:
> /usr/bin/ld: open.o: @gprel relocation against dynamic symbol 
> f__buflen
> 
> Here is some diagnostic information.
> 
> uname -a
> Linux hippo 2.4.21-sgi230rp03111013_10029 #1 SMP 
> Mon Nov 10 13:25:42 PST 2003 ia64 unknown
> 
> gcc --version
> 2.96
> 
> g77 --version
> GNU Fortran 0.5.26 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.2 2.96-118.7.2)
> 
> I can produce the same error messages with the following simpler 
> steps:
> 
> cat >tst.f <<EOF
>       SUBROUTINE DLAMC2( )
>       WRITE( 6, * ) 'SOME STRING'
>       RETURN
>       END
> EOF
> g77 -c tst.f -o tst.o
> gcc -shared tst.o -lg2c
> 
> Is it possible to compile R with gcc 2.96?
> 
> thanks in advance
> werner
> 
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